Organ donation

twinklestars · October 26, 2017, 9:26pm

Bone marrow transplant induces schizophrenia ?! DX'd - Other

Just found this article. In summary: The patient (born 1940) had a blank psychiatric history. He was retired, married and had two adult children. At the age of 67 he developed fatigue and skin ecchymoses, and he was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and bone marrow aplasia […] In 2007 he received an allogeneic peripheral blood SCT from one of his brothers, who was the only HLA-matched family member. This brother (born 1952) had schizophrenia since early adulthood and he required treatment with multiple antipsychotic agents. No other first-degree relatives suffered from schizophrenia. […] He had complete hematologic recovery and reached full hematopoietic chimerism (>97% don…

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