Severe combined immunodeficiency syndrome, tissue transplant, leukaemia, and Q fever.

Abstract

A child born with severe combined immunodeficiency, who was immunoreconstituted by a fetal liver and thymus transplant, developed acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in the donor cell line. During remission she contracted acute Q fever, which gave rise to unexpected complications. Early treatment of the Q fever might have altered the subsequent events and prevented her death.

• Authors: M M Loudon, E N Thompson
• Journal: Archives of disease in childhood (Arch Dis Child) Vol. 63 Issue 2 Pg. 207-9 (Feb 1988) ISSN: 1468-2044 [Electronic] England
• PMID: 3279927 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Topics

• Child
• Female
• Humans
• Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes (complications, therapy)
• Leukemia, Lymphoid (etiology)
• Liver Transplantation
• Postoperative Complications
• Q Fever (etiology)
• Thymus Gland (transplantation)