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Ethmoiditis-associated apex syndrome may result in temporary blindness after allo-SCT

Bone Marrow Transplantation volume 44, pages 825–826 (2009)Cite this article

After allogeneic haematopoietic SCT (HSCT), opportunistic infections still remain one of the major complications.1, 2, 3 At present, advances in therapeutic modalities make HSCT available for elderly patients and patients with more advanced disease; thus, it is likely that increasing frequencies of viral and fungal infections may crucially interfere with the future outcome of HSCT.4, 5, 6

A 64-year-old woman with renal cell carcinoma was referred to our centre for allogeneic HSCT. At diagnosis, metastases were found in the lungs as well as in a paraaortic lymph node. Owing to the bad prognosis of metastasized renal cell carcinoma, she was accepted for allogeneic HSCT using a matched unrelated donor (10/10) to achieve graft-vs-tumour effect. At 6 months after extirpation of the primary tumour (right-sided nephrectomy), she was in good physical shape and was admitted to our ward for transplantation.

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  2. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Karolinska Institutet at Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden. E-mail: richard.olsson@karolinska.se,

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Olsson, R., Juto, JE. & Mattsson, J. Ethmoiditis-associated apex syndrome may result in temporary blindness after allo-SCT. Bone Marrow Transplant 44, 825–826 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2009.85

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