Reactivation of Chagas disease after a bone marrow transplant in Italy: First case report

Blood Transfusion

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 542-544

  Angheben, Andrea ^a   Giaconi, Elena ^b   Menconi, Mariacristina ^b   Casazza, Gabriella ^b   Najajreh, Mohammad ^b   Anselmi, Mariella ^c   Gobbi, Federico ^a   Bisoffi, Zeno ^a   Tascini, Carlo ^b   Favre, Claudio ^b  

^a Centre for Tropical Diseases   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^c Centre for Community Epidemiology and Tropical Medicine (CECOMET)   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Bone marrow transplantation; Chagas disease; Immunosuppression

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BENZNIDAZOLE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; RITUXIMAB; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; FEVER; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; ITALY; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPOMASTIGOTE; VIRUS REACTIVATION; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 84869992069     PISSN: 17232007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2450/2012.0015-12     Document Type: Article

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