Graft‐versus‐host disease, a rare complication after orthotopic liver transplantation

Acute graft‐versus‐host disease (GVHD) after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) is a rare but fatal complication that poses a major diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Our case highlights the need for further studies to develop therapeutic modalities to improve outcomes in patients who develop...

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Autores principales: Ofosu, Andrew, Zabolotsky, Andrew, Rufail, Miguel, Spataro, Joseph, Civan, Jesse
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5771921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29375877
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1314
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author Ofosu, Andrew
Zabolotsky, Andrew
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Civan, Jesse
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description Acute graft‐versus‐host disease (GVHD) after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) is a rare but fatal complication that poses a major diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Our case highlights the need for further studies to develop therapeutic modalities to improve outcomes in patients who develop GHVD following OLT.
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spelling pubmed-57719212018-01-26 Graft‐versus‐host disease, a rare complication after orthotopic liver transplantation Ofosu, Andrew Zabolotsky, Andrew Rufail, Miguel Spataro, Joseph Civan, Jesse Clin Case Rep Clinical Images Acute graft‐versus‐host disease (GVHD) after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) is a rare but fatal complication that poses a major diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Our case highlights the need for further studies to develop therapeutic modalities to improve outcomes in patients who develop GHVD following OLT. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5771921/ /pubmed/29375877 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1314 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ofosu, Andrew
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Graft‐versus‐host disease, a rare complication after orthotopic liver transplantation
title Graft‐versus‐host disease, a rare complication after orthotopic liver transplantation
title_full Graft‐versus‐host disease, a rare complication after orthotopic liver transplantation
title_fullStr Graft‐versus‐host disease, a rare complication after orthotopic liver transplantation
title_full_unstemmed Graft‐versus‐host disease, a rare complication after orthotopic liver transplantation
title_short Graft‐versus‐host disease, a rare complication after orthotopic liver transplantation
title_sort graft‐versus‐host disease, a rare complication after orthotopic liver transplantation
topic Clinical Images
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5771921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29375877
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1314
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