Autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type II after bone marrow transplant: real transfer or acceleration of a programmed disease?

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We report a case of autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type II that developed in an 11-year-old boy with homozygous sickle cell disease after allogeneic bone marrow transplant; the donor was his father, who was human leukocyte antigen identical and had vitiligo. On day 24 after transplant, the patient developed grade 1 acute graft-versus-host disease, which was controlled over a period of 3 months with...

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