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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: David Cavalcanti Ferreira, José Salvador Rodrigues de Oliveira, Katya Parísio, Fernanda Maria Morselli Ramalho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-04-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-84842014000200159&lng=en&tlng=en