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Rejection, but in a Different Direction: Graft-Versus-Host Disease after Solid Organ...

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A 59-year-old man caucasian with hepatocellular carcinoma and liver cirrhosis due to hepatitis C underwent liver transplantation. Three months later he was admitted to the hospital due to voluminous diarrhea, nausea, and significant weakness. The patient was on immunosuppression with tacrolimus and mycophenolate mofetil, and never experienced transplanted organ rejection. Upon presentation, laboratory values showed a white blood cell...