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Aplastic Anemia Post Liver Transplant Due To Graft-Versus-Host Disease, Ping Gong, Md, Jerald Z. Gong, Md

Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology Resident's Posters

Poster presented at: American society for clinical pathology (ASCP) conference 2012, Boston MA, USA.

Introduction:

The patient was a 64-year-old male presented with a 2 day history of increasing fevers and altered mental status. He underwent orthotopic liver transplant for cryptogenic cirrhosis, probably secondary to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, 45 days before. The head and neck imaging showed pancytopenia with WBC 0.6 x 109 /L., hemoglobin 6.8 g/dl and platelet 29 x 109 /L.