PNEUMATOSIS-INTESTINALIS WITH FREE-AIR MIMICKING INTESTINAL PERFORATION IN A BONE-MARROW TRANSPLANT PATIENT

Authors
LIPTON J PATTERSON B MUSTARD R TEJPAR I FYLES G MEHARCHAND J MESSNER H
Citation
J. Lipton et al., PNEUMATOSIS-INTESTINALIS WITH FREE-AIR MIMICKING INTESTINAL PERFORATION IN A BONE-MARROW TRANSPLANT PATIENT, Bone marrow transplantation, 14(2), 1994, pp. 323-326
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Hematology,Oncology,Immunology
Journal title
Bone marrow transplantation → ACNP
ISSN journal
02683369
Volume
14
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
323 - 326
Database
ISI
SICI code
0268-3369(1994)14:2<323:PWFMIP>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
A case of pneumatosis intestinalis with perforation is reported in a p atient after bone marrow allograft for chronic myeloid leukemia. Risk factors included the transplant, prolonged immunosuppression and neutr openia, graft-versus-host disease, extended use of corticosteroids, in fection and lower gastrointestinal endoscopic biopsy. The literature i s reviewed and a management plan for patients presenting with this com plication is discussed.