Post-transfusion acute graft versus host disease in a 17-year-old girl with a malignant mesenchymal tumor--report of a case

Acta Med Austriaca. 2003;30(5):138-41.

Abstract

Post-transfusion graft-versus-host disease (PT-GVHD) is seldom, but it has a high mortality rate, exceeding 90 percent. There is no standard treatment for PT-GVHD and irradiation of blood and its components before transfusion is broadly accepted for the prevention of PT-GVHD. In this report we present a case (a 17-year-old female) of PT GVHD, who died in spite of the use of all available therapeutic options.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use*
  • Breast Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Breast Neoplasms / pathology
  • Breast Neoplasms / therapy
  • Erythrocyte Transfusion / adverse effects*
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Graft vs Host Disease / diagnosis*
  • Humans
  • Mesenchymoma / drug therapy*
  • Mesenchymoma / pathology
  • Mesenchymoma / therapy
  • Recurrence