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Transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease presenting as severe high-volume diarrhoea in a patient with Goodpasture’s syndrome

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The authors wish to thank Karlheinz Smolle, Peter Kaufmann, Andreas Eherer and Gerhard Lanzer for helpful ideas and advice, and Eugenia Lamont for language editing of the manuscript.

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  1. Department of Blood Group Serology and Transfusion Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Karin Amrein & Ursula Posch

  2. Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Cord Langner & Gregor Gorkiewicz

  3. Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 15, 8036, Graz, Austria

    Karin Amrein & Christoph Högenauer

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Amrein, K., Posch, U., Langner, C. et al. Transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease presenting as severe high-volume diarrhoea in a patient with Goodpasture’s syndrome. Intensive Care Med 36, 1271–1272 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-010-1881-x

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