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Survival after cytomegalovirus pneumonia in two children receiving autologous peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation (PBPCT)

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Cytomegalovirus (CMV) pneumonia is a very rare but often fatal complication of autologous bone marrow or peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation. Diagnosis is usually made by means of CMV antigenemia which is strongly predictive of CMV disease. We describe two cases of PBPC transplantation who survived after CMV pneumonia which was diagnosed only by bronchoalveolar lavage in the absence of CMV-antigenemia.

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  1. Unit of Infectious Diseases, G Gaslini Children’s Hospital, Genoa, Italy

    E Castagnola

  2. Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, G Gaslini Children’s Hospital, Genoa, Italy

    S Dallorso & G Dini

  3. Microbiology Laboratory, G Gaslini Children’s Hospital, Genoa, Italy

    M Rabagliati

  4. Unit of Pneumology, G Gaslini Children’s Hospital, Genoa, Italy

    O Sacco

  5. Intensive Care Unit, G Gaslini Children’s Hospital, Genoa, Italy

    Z Kotitsa

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Castagnola, E., Dallorso, S., Rabagliati, M. et al. Survival after cytomegalovirus pneumonia in two children receiving autologous peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation (PBPCT). Bone Marrow Transplant 21, 529–531 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bmt.1701121

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