FK506-associated limbic injury following umbilical cord blood transplantation.
Bone Marrow Transplant
; 32(5): 523-5, 2003 Sep.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-12942100
A 5-year-old girl with Ph-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia, who underwent umbilical cord blood transplantation, developed two episodes of electrical status epilepticus while receiving tacrolimus (FK506) then cyclosporin A (CsA), as treatment against graft-versus-host disease. MRI including diffusion weighted MR imaging of the brain revealed abnormalities in the hippocampus and posterior white matter following FK506 and CsA treatment, respectively. While posterior white matter injury has been described with both FK506 and CsA, no previous report describes hippocampal injury from either drug. The MRI changes in the hippocampus in our case suggest possible increased susceptibility to hippocampal injury with FK506.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Tacrolimus
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Trasplante de Células Madre de Sangre del Cordón Umbilical
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Epilepsia
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Inmunosupresores
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Sistema Límbico
Tipo de estudio:
Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Bone Marrow Transplant
Asunto de la revista:
TRANSPLANTE
Año:
2003
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Japón
Pais de publicación:
Reino Unido