Acute graft-versus-host disease and bronchiolitis obliterans after autologous stem cell transplantation in a patient with multiple myeloma

Clin Case Rep. 2015 Jun;3(6):370-5. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.231. Epub 2015 Apr 9.

Abstract

Sixty-seven-year-old patient, diagnosed with multiple myeloma who had received autologous stem cell transplantation, following bortezomib, dexamethasone and thalidomide conventional regimen, achieving complete response, developed rash, diarrhea, and severe respiratory failure, 80 days after the transplantation procedure. He was diagnosed with graft-versus-host disease and bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome.

Keywords: Autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation; bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome; graft-versus-host disease; multiple myeloma.

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