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Organ tolerance following cadaveric liver transplantation for chronic graft-versus-host disease after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation

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A paediatric patient was treated with orthotopic liver transplantation after he developed cirrhosis of the liver due to chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. His pre-existing chronic GVHD of the skin disappeared and immunosuppressive therapy could be gradually tapered and finally withdrawn 71 months after liver transplantation. Two and a half years after discontinuation of all immunosuppressive therapy, the patient is in excellent condition with neither signs of chronic GVHD nor rejection of the liver graft.

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We are indebted to Prof Shimon Slavin for critically reviewing and Mrs Juliana Schmidt for excellent typing of the manuscript.

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    CH Urban, A Deutschmann, R Kerbl, H Lackner & W Schwinger

  2. Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Innsbruck, Austria

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Urban, C., Deutschmann, A., Kerbl, R. et al. Organ tolerance following cadaveric liver transplantation for chronic graft-versus-host disease after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant 30, 535–537 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bmt.1703688

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