Intestinal amoebiasis in a patient with acute graft‐versus‐host disease after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation successfully treated by metronidazole. Issue 6 (25th November 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Numata, A.; Itabashi, M.; Kishimoto, K.; Motohashi, K.; Hagihara, M.; Kuwabara, H.; Tanaka, M.; Kato, H.; Chiba, S.; Kunisaki, R.; Fujisawa, S.
• Is Part Of: Transplant infectious disease. Volume 17:Issue 6(2016)
• Page Start: 886
• Page End: 889
• Publication Date: 2015-11-25
• Subjects: intestinal amoebiasis -- bone marrow transplantation -- HSCT -- Entamoeba histolytica; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc -- Complications -- Periodicals; Communicable diseases -- Periodicals; Infection -- Periodicals; 617.01
• DOI: 10.1111/tid.12460
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1398-2273

Abstract

Abstract: Amoebiasis has rarely been reported in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, although it is a world‐wide infection and extremely common. We present a case of intestinal amoebiasis unexpectedly revealed by colonoscopy after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation from a human leukocyte antigen‐mismatched unrelated donor for acute myeloid leukemia arising from chronic myelomonocytic leukemia and successfully treated by metronidazole.