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Transfusion Associated Graft-Versus-Host Disease After Open Heart Surgery  

전양빈 (가천의대 길병원 심장센터 흉부외과)
이창하 (가천의대 길병원 심장센터 흉부외과)
이재웅 (가천의대 길병원 심장센터 흉부외과)
박철현 (가천의대 길병원 심장센터 흉부외과)
박국양 (가천의대 길병원 심장센터 흉부외과)
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Journal of Chest Surgery / v.35, no.6, 2002 , pp. 471-474 More about this Journal
Abstract
Transfusion associated graft-versus-host disease is a rare but fatal disease reported after open heart surgeries mainly in Asian people. It can be prevented by pretransfusion gamma irradiation of the fresh whole blood. In this presentation, we report a case of transfusion associated graft-versus-host disease following coronary artery bypass surgery in a 61 year-old male patient. Postoperatively the patient was transfused urgently with 2 units of fresh whole blood from his two sons. He was discharged on postoperative 10 day with only symptom of mild diarrhea. Two days after discharge, he was readmitted because of persistent diarrhea, systemic erythema and high fever. On laboratory examinations, he showed findings of failure in liver, kidney, gastrointestinal tract, and bone marrow. Hemodynamically he deteriorated acutely and died of multiple organ failure on 17th postoperative day. This has been our first experience since we started open heart program at our hospital and we changed our policy for the transfusion of the fresh whole blood after this event.
Keywords
Blood transfusion; Graft VS Host disease; Open heart surgery;
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