Extracorporeal Photopheresis in Children with Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease
Pharmaceuticals, 2021 Chronic graft versus host disease (cGVHD) remains a major complication of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT). It significantly decreases survival and quality of life.
Andrey Kozlov +18 more
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Graft-versus-host disease affecting oral cavity: a review [PDF]
, 2015 Graft versus host disease (GVHD) is one of the most frequent and serious complications of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and is regarded as the leading cause of late mortality unrelated to the underlying malignant disease. GVHD is an autoimmune
Bagán Sebastián, José Vicente +4 more
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Lung transplantation in cystic fibrosis: Trends and controversies [PDF]
, 2015 This article is not an overview of all facets of lung transplantation in cystic fibrosis (CF), but rather it is intended as a review of current allocation controversies, as well as of trends in diagnostics and management in lung transplant recipients and
Blatter, Joshua, Sweet, Stuart
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Heart re-transplantation in Eurotransplant [PDF]
, 2018 Internationally 3% of the donor hearts are distributed to re-transplant patients. In Eurotransplant, only patients with a primary graft dysfunction (PGD) within 1 week after heart transplantation (HTX) are indicated for high urgency listing.
Baric, D. (Davor) +30 more
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A 2-step approach to myeloablative haploidentical stem cell transplantation: a phase 1/2 trial performed with optimized T-cell dosing. [PDF]
, 2011 Studies of haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) have identified threshold doses of T cells below which severe GVHD is usually absent.
Brunner, Janet +14 more
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Extracorporeal photopheresis in the treatment of graft-versus-host disease
Онкогематология, 2016 Extracorporeal photopheresis has proved efficacy in the treatment of chronic graft-versus-host disease after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and is an alternative to other treatments.
I. V. Guz, P. E. Trachtman
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Chronic lung allograft dysfunction following lung transplantation: Challenges and solutions [PDF]
, 2014 Bradford C Bemiss, Chad A WittDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USAAbstract: Chronic rejection is a major cause of death after the first year ...
Bemiss, Bradford C., Witt, Chad A.
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Bacterial contamination rates in extracorporeal photopheresis [PDF]
Transfusion, 2020 ABSTRACTBACKGROUNDExtracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) is an immunosuppressive treatment that involves leukocyte apheresis, psoralen and UV light treatment, and subsequent reinfusion. Patients treated with ECP are usually immunosuppressed. Bacterial contamination therefore poses a much unwanted risk, but incidence data are lacking.PATIENTS AND METHODSWe ...
Irene Pamler +7 more
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Extracorporeal Photopheresis in Dermatological Diseases. [PDF]
Int J Mol SciExtracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) is an apheresis procedure that is conventionally used as a first-line treatment for cutaneous and leukemic subtypes of T-cell lymphoma, such as Sezary’s syndrome and mycosis fungoides. Over the past three decades, its immunotherapeutic properties have been tested on a variety of autoimmune conditions, including many ...
Terhaar H, Saleem M, Yusuf N.
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Extracorporeal photopheresis in the treatment of acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease: A position statement from the Turkish Society of Apheresis (TSA) [PDF]
, 2022 Graft versus host disease (GVHD) is still the most important cause of mortality and morbidity after allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Though perfect response rates are not achieved, steroids are still the first-line treat-ment.
Aksu, Salih +6 more
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