Successful management with urgent haploidentical-peripheral blood stem cell transplantation for a patient with severe aplastic anemia who developed disseminated fungal infection following immunosuppressive therapy
Authors
Norihito Ikenobe1, Kentaro Fujimori1, Yoshihiro Gocho1, Shota Myojin2, Masaki Yamada2,3, Kenichi Imadome3, Mikiko Miyasaka4, Osamu Miyazaki4, Akihiro Yoneda5, Shotaro Matsumoto6, Satoshi Nakagawa6, Takao Deguchi1, Akihiro Iguchi1, Daisuke Tomizawa1, Chikara Ogimi2, Kimikazu Matsumoto1, Hirotoshi Sakaguchi1
Affiliations.
1. Children’s Cancer Center, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan.
2. Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medical Subspecialties, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan.
3. Department of Advanced Medicine for Viral Infections, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan.
4. Department of Radiology, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan.
5. Division of Surgery, Department of Surgical Specialties, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan.
6. Critical Care Medicine, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan.
Corresponding author
Hirotoshi Sakaguchi
Children’s Cancer Center, National Center for Child health and Development
2-10-1 Okura, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan 157-8535
TEL: +81-3-3416-0181 / FAX: +81-3-5494-7523 / E-mail: sakaguchi-hi@ncchd.go.jp
Word count
99 words in abstract, 1198 words in main text, 1 table, and 1 figure.
Running tirle
Urgent haplo-PBSCT for a refractory AA patient
Keywords
Aplastic anemia
Fungal infection
Haploidentical peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
Abbreviations