Supplementary Material for: Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency possibly related to atypical chronic graft-versus-host disease

We report the case of a 66-year-old woman who presented with diarrhea and weight loss approximately fourteen months after unrelated allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for acute myeloid leukemia. Her early post-transplant course was notable for mild acute skin graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) and biopsy-proven upper gastrointestinal (GI) acute GVHD, both of which resolved with treatment. She then developed weight loss and diarrhea treated with prednisolone for what was thought to be GI late acute GVHD. However, her diarrhea and weight loss persisted. Colonoscopyn biopsies showed a grossly intact mucosa, and stool studies only confirmed steatorrhea. were negative for GI late acute GVHD; Hhowever, an atrophic pancreas was found on an abdominal computed tomography (CT) scan. Exocrine pancreatic enzymes, such as lipase and pancreatic amylase, were markedly decreased, yet pancreatic endocrine function remained intact. The patient’s diarrhea and weight loss improved upon treatment with pancrelipase. Therefore, we suggest that her exocrine pancreatic insufficiency was likely partly caused mediated by atypicalpossibly related to atypical chronic GVHD.