The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Volume 28, Issue 7 , Pages 749-750 , July 2009

Pancytopenia With Hypercellular Bone Marrow Secondary to Cytomegalovirus After Cardiac Transplant

  • Osama Elkhateeb, MD, FRCPC

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Osama Elkhateeb, MD, Division of Cardiology, 1796 Summer St, Halifax, NS B3H 3A7, Canada. Telephone: 1-902-473-2222
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  • Simon Jackson, MD, FRCPC

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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  • Walter F. Schlech, MD, FACP

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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  • Kate Storm, RN

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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  • Jonathan Howlett, MD, FRCPC

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Received 4 December 2008 ,Revised 13 March 2009 ,Accepted 7 April 2009.

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PII: S1053-2498(09)00229-0

doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2009.04.007

The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Volume 28, Issue 7 , Pages 749-750 , July 2009

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