A retrospective analysis of Canadian cases finds clinicians turn to a variety of therapies for chronic graft-vs-host disease (GVHD) if corticosteroids fail. A new review of chronic graft-vs-host ...
Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a complication that can develop after a bone marrow or stem cell transplant. It occurs when the donor’s immune cells mistakenly attack the tissue in the recipient’s ...
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What To Know About Graft vs. Host Disease (GVHD)
Graft vs. host disease (GVHD) can occur after a stem cell transplant from a donor. Transplants replace unhealthy cells with healthy blood-forming cells, which can treat some cancers. GVHD happens when ...
Picture this: you’re surviving cancer, chemotherapy, radiation, immunosuppression, and a blood stem cell transplant, and you haven’t left the hospital in weeks. Yet, somehow, you have what feels and ...
In patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT), a calcineurin inhibitor plus methotrexate has been a standard prophylaxis against graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). A ...
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