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Case report: acute polymyositis in a patient with chronic graft vs. host disease
J L Ascensao1, R B Mascarenhas, A Mittelman
1New York Medical College, Department of Medicine, Valhalla 10595.
Medical Oncology and Tumor Pharmacotherapy
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
Chronic graft versus host disease (cGVHD) is a multisystemic condition which occurs in 25 to 40% of patients undergoing allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. A 31 year old male developed acute polymyositis one year in the setting of cGVHD etc. after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. A viral etiology could not be proven. This presumably represented a manifestation of cGVHD. His clinical condition improved with immunosuppression and he remains asymptomatic, off therapy.