Protein-losing gastropathy associated with cytomegalovirus: a rare and late complication of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation

Bone Marrow Transplant. 1996 May;17(5):887-9.

Abstract

A 36-year-old women with chronic myelogenous leukemia in first chronic phase received a bone marrow transplant from her HLA-identical brother. The preparatory regimen consisted of total body irradiation (10 Gy) and cyclophosphamide (60 mg/kg for 2 days). Full engraftment was achieved and the woman was monitored as an outpatient after discharge from hospital on day 35. One year after BMT, while she was on cyclosporin A and steroids because of chronic graft-versus-host disease, the patient developed protein-losing gastropathy associated with cytomegalovirus infection (with no gastrointestinal symptoms), which regressed spontaneously in 4 weeks.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Bone Marrow Transplantation / adverse effects*
  • Cytomegalovirus Infections / diagnosis
  • Cytomegalovirus Infections / etiology*
  • Female
  • Gastritis, Hypertrophic / diagnosis
  • Gastritis, Hypertrophic / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Leukemia, Myeloid, Chronic-Phase / therapy
  • Male
  • Protein-Losing Enteropathies / diagnosis
  • Protein-Losing Enteropathies / etiology*
  • Time Factors
  • Transplantation, Homologous