Toxoplasmosis with hemophagocytic syndrome after bone marrow transplantation: Diagnosis at autopsy

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 372-374

  Duband, S ^a,b   Cornillon, J ^a   Tavernier, E ^a   Dumollard, J M ^a,b   Guyotat, D ^a   Peoc'h M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^b Jean Monnet University   (France)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Bone marrow transplantation; Hemophagocytic syndrome; Toxoplasmosis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTARABINE; DEFIBROTIDE; GANCICLOVIR; IDARUBICIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE BIOPSY; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN OCCLUSION; VIRUS REACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; FATAL OUTCOME; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEART; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; LUNG; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 52449130315     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2008.00310.x     Document Type: Article

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