Pneumocystis carinii and Trichosporon beigelii pneumonia following allogeneic haemopoeitic stem cell transplantation.

Pneumocystis Carinii and Trichosporon beigelii are opportunistic infections in immunocompromised patients. We report a case of a young lady who underwent haemopoeitic stem cell transplantation for relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia. This 25 years old female developed fever, dry cough and rapidly progressive dyspnoea during post transplant neutropenia and was found to be suffering from Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.

Allogeneic stem cell transplantation in chronic myeloid leukaemia--2 1/2 year experience.

Objective: To evaluate out come of allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation (SCT) in chronic myeloid leukaemia (CMC) at Armed Forces Bone Marrow Transplant Centre, Rawalpindi from April 2002 to October 2004.

Methods: Twenty-two patients with CML underwent allogeneic SCT from HLA matched siblings. Patients were divided into standard (n=14) and high-risk (n=8) groups.

Graft versus host disease in allogeneic stem cell transplantation--3 1/2 years experience.

Objective: To evaluate the frequency and outcome of graft versus host disease after allogeneic stem cell transplant in haematological disorders at Armed Forces Bone Marrow Transplant Centre, Rawalpindi from July 2001 to December 2004.

Methods: Eighty-six patients with various haematological disorders namely aplastic anaemia (n=32), b-Thalassaemia (n=25), CML (n=22), ALL (n=3), AML (n=1) Fanconi's anaemia (n=2), and Gaucher's disease (n=1), underwent allogeneic stem cell transplantation. All patients received cyclosoprin, prednisolone and short course of methotrexate as GvHD prophylaxis.