Prolonged neutropenia resulting from antibodies to neutrophil-specific antigen NB1 following marrow transplantation.

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Marrow graft failure is a significant cause of morbidity following bone marrow transplantation. A case is reported of marrow graft failure due to neutrophil antibodies. A 13-year-old girl with a large granular lymphocytosis and chronic neutropenia was treated with granulocyte transfusions prior to undergoing a transplant with bone marrow from a partially matched, unrelated donor. Following the transplant, a bone...

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