A 39-year-old man with acute myeloid leukemia underwent completely matched related hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. On post-transplantation day 83 he was diagnosed as having upper gastrointestinal graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) by endoscopic examination and pathological examination of endoscopic biopsy specimens, and daily administration of 60 mg of water-soluble prednisolone and 50 mg of cyclosporine was started. After steroid therapy, the symptoms of upper gastrointestinal GVHD disappeared completely and endoscopic findings dramatically improved.
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K. Okazaki,M.D.
Dept. of Gastroenterology and Endoscopic Medicine
Kyoto University Hospital
Shogoin-Kawara-cho
Sakyo-ku
Kyoto city
Kyoto 606-8507
Japan
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