Stool smears for diagnosis of intestinal acute graft-versus-host disease

K Hirano; F Kondo; Y Kondo; K Kurosawa; S Suwabe; Y Noguchi; N Miura; H Kakuda; T Sato; H Niimi

doi:10.1038/sj.bmt.1701958

Stool smears for diagnosis of intestinal acute graft-versus-host disease

Bone Marrow Transplant. 1999 Oct;24(7):799-801. doi: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1701958.

Authors

K Hirano¹, F Kondo, Y Kondo, K Kurosawa, S Suwabe, Y Noguchi, N Miura, H Kakuda, T Sato, H Niimi

Affiliation

¹ Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.

PMID: 10516685
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1701958

Abstract

A patient with severe diarrhea was successfully diagnosed as having acute intestinal GVHD on stool smear through detection of detached intestinal epithelial cells with apoptosis. Since a stool smear can be easily obtained non-invasively, it is a possible tool for the diagnosis of acute intestinal GVHD.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Acute Disease
Bone Marrow Transplantation / adverse effects
Bone Marrow Transplantation / pathology
Graft vs Host Disease / diagnosis*
Graft vs Host Disease / etiology
Graft vs Host Disease / pathology
Humans
Infant
Intestinal Diseases / diagnosis*
Intestinal Diseases / etiology
Intestinal Diseases / pathology
Male
Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / therapy