Eosinophilic pulmonary syndrome as a manifestation of GVHD following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in three patients

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 155-158

  Akhtari, M ^a   Langston, A A ^a   Waller, E K ^a   Gal, A A ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AZITHROMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUDARABINE; IFOSFAMIDE; INFLIXIMAB; LEVOFLOXACIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; POSACONAZOLE; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; TACROLIMUS; VINCRISTINE; VORICONAZOLE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BRONCHIOLITIS; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; EOSINOPHILIA; EOSINOPHILIC PULMONARY SYNDROME; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFECTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALE; MANIA; MYOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUVA; SKIN DISEASE; T CELL LYMPHOMA; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ADULT; BIOPSY; CHRONIC DISEASE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EOSINOPHILIA; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING;

EID: 59549086298     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2008.302     Document Type: Article

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