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Discordant molecular tests for acute Graft-Versus-Host Disease after liver transplant: FISHing for the proper diagnosis

Abstract

We report cutaneous fluorescent in-situ hybridization (FISH) analysis as a useful test for earlier diagnostic confirmation in a case of acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in a sex-mismatched liver transplant patient compared to the gold standard peripheral blood short tandem repeat chimerism analysis.