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Detection of circulating donor deoxyribonucleic acid by microsatellite analysis in a liver transplant recipient.
Liver transplantation and surgery : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society - 1 Sept 1996
Burt M, Jazwinska E, Lynch S, Kerlin P, Gill D, Steadman C, Jonsson J, Strong R, Powell E
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The diagnosis of graft-versus-host disease following liver transplantation may be delayed because the clinical and pathological features are nonspecific. We report the use of microsatellites to support a diagnosis of GVHD in a patient who developed fever and a skin rash 28 days after liver transplantation. The pattern of microsatellite alleles amplified from the peripheral blood on day 51 posttransplant indicated...
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