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Acute graft versus host disease [PDF]
Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2007 Acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) occurs after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant and is a reaction of donor immune cells against host tissues. Activated donor T cells damage host epithelial cells after an inflammatory cascade that begins
Vogelsang Georgia B, Jacobsohn David A
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Graft-versus-host disease [PDF]
BMJ Case Reports, 2010 This article presents the case of a 26-year-old man who was diagnosed with pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis, a rare consequence of colonic graft-versus-host disease, after CT imaging revealed free air tracking within the bowel wall and abdomen. His presentation with hiccups, abdominal and neck distension, along with diarrhoea was also unusual, and ...
Joel A, Newman +4 more
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Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America, 1990 Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is caused by immunologic recognition of the patient by the donor marrow graft after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Despite advances in understanding and new agents and methods to treat GVHD, the disease and complications related to it and its treatment are the principal causes of death after transplantation ...
G B, Vogelsang, J E, Wagner
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Graft-versus-host disease [PDF]
The Lancet, 2009 Haemopoietic-cell transplantation (HCT) is an intensive therapy used to treat high-risk haematological malignant disorders and other life-threatening haematological and genetic diseases. The main complication of HCT is graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), an immunological disorder that affects many organ systems, including the gastrointestinal tract ...
James L M, Ferrara +3 more
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Minors come of age: minor histocompatibility antigens and graft-versus-host disease [PDF]
, 2004 Minor histocompatibility antigens (miHA) are responsible for the occurrence of graft-versus-host disease in the setting of a major histocompatibility complex matched sibling allogeneic stem cell transplantation.
Chao, Nelson J
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Haematologica, 2011 Background The 2005 National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference on chronic graft-versus-host disease proposed major changes in the classification and grading of severity of chronic graft-versus-host disease.Design and Methods We aimed ...
Joseph Pidala +6 more
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The use of FK-506 for small intestine llotransplantation: Inhibition of acute rejection and prevention of fatal graft-versus-host disease [PDF]
, 1990 Small intestine allotransplantation in humans is not yet feasible due to the failure of the current methods of immunosuppression. FK-506, a powerful new immunosuppressive agent that is synergistic with cyclosporine, allows long-term survival of ...
Banner, B +7 more
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Beta herpes viruses in patients with cutaneous graft-versus-host disease
Журнал инфектологии, 2015 Graft-versus-host disease is a major complication of allogenic bone marrow transplantation. Beta herpes viruses’ role in pathogenesis and prognosis of graft-versus-host disease is significant.
V. V. Baykov +6 more
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Vitiligo: an uncommon cutaneous manifestation of graft versus host disease
Pigment International, 2022 Graft versus host disease (GVHD) is the most serious complication of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Skin is the most commonly affected organ, in both acute and chronic GVHD with a variable clinical spectrum of presentation with the typical skin
Preema Sinha +3 more
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Non-infectious pulmonary complications of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation [PDF]
, 2014 Noninfectious pulmonary complications of hematopoietic stem cell transplant are currently more prevalent than infectious complications. Unfortunately, the pathophysiology basis is not completely understood.
Baloglu, Orkun +2 more
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