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Case Report: Mevalonic Aciduria Complicated by Acute Myeloid Leukemia After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.
Frontiers in immunology - 1 Jan 2021
Kim Hyery, Lee Beom Hee, Do Hyo-Sang, Kim Gu-Hwan, Kang Sunghan, Koh Kyung-Nam, Im Ho Joon
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Mevalonic aciduria (MA) is the most severe clinical subtype of mevalonate kinase deficiency (MKD) caused by an inherited defect in the mevalonate pathway. The treatment of MKD focuses on the suppression of recurrent hyperinflammatory attacks using anti-inflammatory drugs. Recently, allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT) was shown to successfully ameliorate autoinflammatory attacks in patients...
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