SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF PARVOVIRUS B19 INFECTION AND RED-CELL APLASIAOCCURRING AFTER AN ALLOGENEIC BONE-MARROW TRANSPLANT

Citation
Tj. Corbett et al., SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF PARVOVIRUS B19 INFECTION AND RED-CELL APLASIAOCCURRING AFTER AN ALLOGENEIC BONE-MARROW TRANSPLANT, Bone marrow transplantation, 16(5), 1995, pp. 711-713
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Hematology,Oncology,Immunology,Transplantation
Journal title
ISSN journal
02683369
Volume
16
Issue
5
Year of publication
1995
Pages
711 - 713
Database
ISI
SICI code
0268-3369(1995)16:5<711:STOPBI>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
Chronic parvovirus B19 infection in the immunocompromised host may cau se severe anaemia secondary to failure of erythropoiesis. This has bee n previously documented in patients with the Acquired Immune Deficienc y Syndrome (AIDS), congenital immunodeficiencies and in children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia during maintenance chemotherapy. We desc ribe persistent parvovirus infection in a 14-year-old boy after HLA-ma tched sibling allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for acute lymphob lastic leukaemia in second remission.