Preventative policies in transfusion associated graft versus host disease in the treatment of cancer.
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Successful treatment of transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease.
We present an immunocompetent patient with transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), in which chimaerism of peripheral blood lymphocytes was demonstrated by analysis of a highly polymorphic genome. The patient was treated successfully with anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody, OKT3 and cyclosporin A. Although it is undoubtedly important to prevent transfusion-associated GVHD by irradiati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.71.6.532