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Rev Bras Hematol Hemoter. 2014 Mar;36(2):159-61. doi: 10.5581/1516-8484.20140034.

Pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade: clinical manifestation of chronic graft-versus-host disease after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Revista brasileira de hematologia e hemoterapia

David Cavalcanti Ferreira, José Salvador Rodrigues de Oliveira, Katya Parísio, Fernanda Maria Morselli Ramalho

Affiliations

  1. Hospital Santa Marcelina, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, Hospital Santa Marcelina (HSM), São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

PMID: 24790543 PMCID: PMC4005516 DOI: 10.5581/1516-8484.20140034

Abstract

The authors report a case with pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade as a rare clinical manifestation of chronic graft-versus-host disease in a young man with acute myelogenous leukemia submitted to an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation from a related donor.

Keywords: Graft-versus-host disease; Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; Pericardial effusion

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