| Title | Severe acute graft versus host disease after lung transplant: report of a case successfully treated with high dose corticosteroids. | | Author(s) | Fossi A, Voltolini L, Filippi R, Luzzi L, Pasini FL, Marchi B, Gotti G, Rottoli P | | Institution | Respiratory Disease Section, Department of Clinical Medicine and Immunology, University Hospital of Siena, Siena, Italy. | | Source | J Heart Lung Transplant 2009 May; 28(5):508-10. | | Abstract | Acute graft vs host disease is an uncommon and usually fatal complication of lung transplant for which no effective therapy exists. All 8 patients with grade 3 to 4 acute graft vs host disease after lung transplantation described in literature died within 208 days. We report a patient with grade 3 to 4 acute graft vs host disease after bilateral lung transplantation who was successfully treated with high-dose corticosteroids after basiliximab and extracorporeal photopheresis were unsuccessful. | | Language | eng | | Pub Type(s) | Journal Article
| | PubMed ID | 19416782 |
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