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Bilateral choroidal detachment after cord blood stem cell transplantation in an adult patient with acute myeloid leukemia

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We report on bilateral choroidal detachment after a cord blood stem cell transplantation procedure. A 52-year-old woman had graft-versus-host disease 49 days after CBSCT for acute myeloid leukemia. She developed bilateral conjunctival chemosis and choroidal detachment 66 days after CBSCT. The annular choroidal detachment gradually increased in both eyes, with no improvement noted over the following month. At 106 days after CBSCT, the patient died from multiple organ failure. Graft-versus-host disease can be associated with bilateral choroidal detachment after CBSCT.

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan

    Tatsuya Mimura

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

    Tatsuya Mimura, Takayuki Nakashizuka, Junko Kami, Morio Kohmura, Shimpei Sato, Kazuhiro Dou & Mikiro Mori

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Mimura, T., Nakashizuka, T., Kami, J. et al. Bilateral choroidal detachment after cord blood stem cell transplantation in an adult patient with acute myeloid leukemia. Int Ophthalmol 32, 379–381 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10792-012-9539-z

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