Pure red cell aplasia complicating an ABO-compatible allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, treated

 

Pure red cell aplasia complicating an ABO-compatible allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, treated successfully with antithymocyte globulin.

Roychowdhury DF, Linker CA.
 

Bone Marrow Transplant. 1995 Sep;16(3):471-2.


Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0324, USA.

A patient underwent an HLA-identical ABO-compatible allogeneic bone marrow transplant for aplastic anemia. She then developed pure red cell aplasia which was treated successfully with antithymocyte globulin and methylprednisolone, after failing to respond to intravenous immune globulin infusion.

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PMID: 8535322 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]