Graft versus host disease after orthotopic liver transplantation documented by analysis of short tandem repeat polymorphisms.

作者信息

Schöniger-Hekele M, Müller C, Kramer L, Dauber E, Mayr W R, Wrba F, Rockenschaub S, Mühlbacher F

机构信息

Universitatsklinik fur Innere Medizin IV, Klinische Abteilung Gastroenterologie und Hepatologie, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

出版信息

Digestion. 2006;74(3-4):169-73. doi: 10.1159/000100500. Epub 2007 Mar 6.

We report a case of graft versus host disease after liver transplantation in which the diagnosis was made by short tandem repeat analysis. A retrospective analysis using a bone marrow sample showed the presence of chimerism already at a time when the characteristic full clinical picture of graft versus host disease had not yet developed, opening the way for the early diagnosis and treatment.