phenylephrine-hydrochloride and Graft-vs-Host-Disease

A 42-year-old woman with a history of acute myeloid leukaemia status postallogeneic stem cell transplant presented with fevers, altered mental status, pulmonary infiltrates and septic shock that further progressed to thrombocytopenia and purpura fulminans. Laboratory studies were consistent with a diagnosis of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). Blood cultures grew

Topics: Adult; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Bacteremia; Ceftriaxone; Diagnosis, Differential; Female; Fibrinolytic Agents; Fingers; Gangrene; Glucocorticoids; Graft vs Host Disease; Humans; Immunologic Factors; Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute; Nose; Plasma Exchange; Pneumococcal Infections; Purpura Fulminans; Purpura, Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic; Rituximab; Shock, Septic; Single-Domain Antibodies; Stem Cell Transplantation; Toes