Pulmonary disease caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation--a case report and literature review / 中华血液学杂志
Chinese Journal of Hematology
; (12): 470-472, 2004.
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in Zh
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ABSTRACT
<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To report a case with pulmonary disease caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT), with a literature review.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Case report and literature review.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>A patient with acute non-lymphocytic leukemia was treated by allo-HSCT. Her NTM lung disease developed after HSCT was successfully treated with a 3 antimicrobials combination of clarithromycin, levofloxacin and capreomycin for 10 months.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>NTM infections are infrequent in allo-HSCT recipients and have a good clinical prognosis if correctly treated.</p>
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WPRIM
Main subject:
Respiratory Tract Infections
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Therapeutics
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Transplantation, Homologous
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Catheterization
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Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
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Classification
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Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
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Mycobacterium Infections
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
Language:
Zh
Journal:
Chinese Journal of Hematology
Year:
2004
Document type:
Article