{"title":"Post-transfusion acute graft versus host disease in a 17-year-old girl with a malignant mesenchymal tumor--report of a case.","authors":"G Utkan, A Buyukcelik, O Demir, H Sanli, A Pamir","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Post-transfusion graft-versus-host disease (PT-GVHD) is seldom, but it has a high mortality rate, exceeding 90 percent. There is no standard treatment for PT-GVHD and irradiation of blood and its components before transfusion is broadly accepted for the prevention of PT-GVHD. In this report we present a case (a 17-year-old female) of PT GVHD, who died in spite of the use of all available therapeutic options.</p>","PeriodicalId":6945,"journal":{"name":"Acta medica Austriaca","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Acta medica Austriaca","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Post-transfusion graft-versus-host disease (PT-GVHD) is seldom, but it has a high mortality rate, exceeding 90 percent. There is no standard treatment for PT-GVHD and irradiation of blood and its components before transfusion is broadly accepted for the prevention of PT-GVHD. In this report we present a case (a 17-year-old female) of PT GVHD, who died in spite of the use of all available therapeutic options.