The Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society : official organ of the Louisiana State Medical Society
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Review Case Reports
Graft-versus-host disease: case report and review of literature.
We describe a young patient with acute myeloid leukemia who, having been treated with allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, presented with acute graft-versus-host disease. One year later, leukemia relapse was treated with donor lymphocyte infusion and was followed by a new episode of acute graft-versus-host disease. The patient died 18 months after the transplantation, with evidence of chronic graft-versus-host disease in multiple organs.
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Primary omental torsion is an uncommon cause of an acute abdomen that can mimic acute appendicitis. Herein we report a case of suspected acute appendicitis that proved to be a distal segment of infarcted omentum secondary to primary torsion.