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A patient with severe diarrhea was successfully diagnosed as having acute intestinal GVHD on stool smear through detection of detached intestinal epithelial cells with apoptosis. Since a stool smear can be easily obtained non-invasively, it is a possible tool for the diagnosis of acute intestinal GVHD.
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Hirano, K., Kondo, F., Kondo, Y. et al. Stool smears for diagnosis of intestinal acute graft-versus-host disease. Bone Marrow Transplant 24, 799–801 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bmt.1701958
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bmt.1701958