Hepatic veno-occlusive disease after high-dose mitomycin C and autologous bone marrow transplantation therapy

Hum Pathol. 1982 Jul;13(7):646-50. doi: 10.1016/s0046-8177(82)80008-7.

Abstract

Three cases of veno-occlusive disease of the liver were diagnosed in four autopsied patients who had received high-dose mitomycin C therapy followed by autologous bone marrow transplantation, and the pathologic finding are reported. Review of 27 liver, examined post mortem, of patients receiving other high-dose chemotherapeutic regimens, 15 of them with subsequent autologous bone marrow transplantation, revealed no evidence of veno-occlusive disease. Veno-occlusive disease may now become a dose-limiting factor in the use of the combined high-dose mitomycin C-bone marrow transplantation therapy. Attention is also drawn to the increasing number of veno-occlusive disease cases being reported in associated with alkylating agents.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Bone Marrow Transplantation*
  • Budd-Chiari Syndrome / chemically induced
  • Budd-Chiari Syndrome / etiology*
  • Budd-Chiari Syndrome / pathology
  • Budd-Chiari Syndrome / therapy
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mitomycin
  • Mitomycins / administration & dosage
  • Mitomycins / adverse effects*

Substances

  • Mitomycins
  • Mitomycin