Local cytokine release syndrome with cervical angioedema following CAR-T cell therapy

Karney Lahad1, Ofrat Beyar-Katz2, Mohamad Dallasheh2

  • 1Department of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel; Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa. karneylahad482@gmail.com.

Haematologica
|April 23, 2026
PubMed

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