Successful use of eculizumab in a patient with post-transplant thrombotic microangiopathy

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 279-280

  De Latour, Régis Peffault ^a   Xhaard, Aliénor ^a   Fremeaux Bacchi, Véronique ^b   Coppo, Paul ^c   Fischer, Anne Marie ^b   Helley, Dominique ^b   Socié, Gérard ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^b HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

^c ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Eculizumab; Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation; Thrombotic microangiopathy

Indexed keywords

BORTEZOMIB; CYCLOSPORIN A; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; ECULIZUMAB; FOSCARNET; MELPHALAN; MEPREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; THALIDOMIDE;

ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS INFECTION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TRANSPLANTATION ASSOCIATED THROMBOTIC MICROANGIOPATHY; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; THROMBOTIC MICROANGIOPATHIES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 84875803456     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: 13652141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bjh.12202     Document Type: Letter

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