Blood consult: Granulocyte transfusions to treat invasive aspergillosis in a patient with severe aplastic anemia awaiting mismatched hematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation

Blood

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1353-1355

  O'Donghaile, Diarmaid ^a   Childs, Richard W ^b   Leitman, Susan F ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; CASPOFUNGIN; CEFTAZIDIME; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GALACTOMANNAN; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HEMOGLOBIN; HETASTARCH; HLA ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; VORICONAZOLE;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; LEUKAPHERESIS; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG NODULE; METAPHASE; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NOCARDIOSIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; REMISSION; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; SEPSIS; SEVERE APLASTIC ANEMIA; SKIN BRUISING; SPORT INJURY; TACHYPNEA; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPHERESIS;

EID: 84856910572     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2011-10-345751     Document Type: Article

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