A 47-Year-Old Stem Cell Transplant Recipient with Fever, Cough and Chest Pain | Zendy

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A 47-Year-Old Stem Cell Transplant Recipient with Fever, Cough and Chest Pain

Author(s) -

Omar Salh,

Omar Nadhem,

S. Thakore,

Ruba A Halloush,

Faisal A Khasawneh

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

canadian respiratory journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.675

H-Index - 53

eISSN - 1916-7245

pISSN - 1198-2241

DOI - 10.1155/2015/132162

Subject(s) - medicine , sequela , immunosuppression , stem cell , transplantation , hematopoietic stem cell transplantation , disease , fever of unknown origin , surgery , intensive care medicine , genetics , biology

Infections and malignancies are among the most serious complications that follow organ or stem cell transplantation. They may have a mild course, and nonspecific and overlapping manifestations. The present article describes a case of symptomatic nodular pulmonary disease that complicated hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. It was diagnosed to be post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder, a potential sequela of immunosuppression and a very difficult entity to treat in profoundly immunosuppressed patients.

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