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- Published on: 18 April 2016
- Published on: 18 April 2016
- Published on: 18 April 2016Crohn’s ileitis after liver transplantation from a living-related donor with Crohn’s diseaseShow More
Dear Editor
We read with interest the case described recently by Sonwalkar et al, of a patient who developed fulminant Crohn’s colitis after allogeneic stem cell transplantation (ASCT).[1] Although the donor had no known Crohn’s disease (CD) and did not carry the IBD3 or IBD5 haplotypes associated with CD, HLA class III mismatches at IBD3 and a CD-associated polymorphism of the 5'UTR of NOD2/CARD15 were presen...
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None declared. - Published on: 18 April 2016Adoptive transfer of genetic susceptibility to Crohn's disease?Show More
Dear Editor
We read with great interest the stimulating case report about fulminant Crohn’s colitis following allogenic stem cell transplantation by Sonwalkar and colleagues [1] and the respective editorial.[2] The authors and the editorialists hypothesize whether the colitis might be ascribed to the adoptive transfer of stem cells displaying genetic alterations which are associated with Crohn’s disease. However, the i...
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