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HTLV-I-associated myelopathy following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation
1Department of Medicine, UCLA Center for the Health Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Bone Marrow Transplantation
|August 24, 1999
Abstract:
A 39-year-old polytransfused patient with aplastic anemia acquired transfusion-associated HTLV-I infection shortly before transplantation. The patient underwent allogeneic bone marrow transplantation and developed HTLV-I associated myelopathy 3 years later. Clinical abnormalities and a host of atypical findings are presented in the context of previous reports describing uncommon features of the disease.