Unfavorable outcome of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in two siblings with Wolman disease due to graft failure and hepatic complications

Molecular Genetics and Metabolism

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 224-226

  Yanir, Asaf ^a   Allatif, Mahmud Abed ^a   Weintraub, Michael ^a   Stepensky, Polina ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

HSCT; Storage disease; Wolman

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; BUSULFAN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; DEFIBROTIDE; FLUDARABINE; THIOTEPA; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ABDOMINAL SWELLING; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANAMNESIS; ANURIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CHIMERA; CODON; DIARRHEA; DIURESIS; DONOR LYMPHOCYTE INFUSION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENGRAFTMENT; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FATTY LIVER; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SIBLING; SPLENIC VARICES; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; VARICOSIS; VOMITING; WOLMAN DISEASE;

CHILD; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; WOLMAN DISEASE;

EID: 84878493935     PISSN: 10967192     EISSN: 10967206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2013.03.007     Document Type: Article

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