1991 Volume 37 Issue 6 Pages 1159-1164
A case of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is presented. The patient was a 26 year-old female with tongue carcinoma. Blood transfusion was performed after the surgical operation.
Although the postoperative period was uneventful, on the 10th day, severe fever, diarrhea, and whole body erythema suddenly appeared. Blood examination disclosed decrease of granulocytes and liver dysfunction. These symptoms increasingly became severe and she fell into acute dyspnca and died. Diagnosis of GVHD was made from these characteristic symptoms and skin biopsy from abdominal erythema.
