Bernice Kwong, MD, clinical professor of dermatology, Stanford University, expands on her session about graft-versus-host disease diagnosis and management presented at the 2022 American Academy of ...
There are now more drugs than ever to treat and prevent graft-versus-host disease in patients with blood cancer who receive a stem cell transplant. For many patients with blood cancers, an allogeneic ...
A higher dose of anti-T-lymphocyte globulin (ATLG) significantly outperformed a lower dose in preventing graft-vs-host ...
A 52-year-old woman experiences chronic GvHD post-stem cell transplant, showcasing skin and joint symptoms, requiring ongoing ...
Risk of graft-vs.-host disease, an often-debilitating and sometimes-deadly bone marrow transplant complication, can be reduced by matching key immune genes in a transplant recipient and their donor.
PTCY offers improved progression-free and overall survival compared to ATG in MDS patients undergoing allo-HSCT. PTCY is associated with lower rates of grade 2 to 4 acute GVHD but has delayed ...
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NEW ORLEANS -- A three-drug regimen should be the standard for graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) prophylaxis in blood cancer patients undergoing reduced-intensity conditioning allogeneic hematopoietic ...
Graft-versus-Host Disease (GvHD), a systemic inflammatory condition, is the result of a reaction between transplanted donor T cells recognizing the antigenic disparities between the host and the ...
Patients undergoing matched-donor stem cell transplants lived four times longer without episodes of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) with post-transplant cyclophosphamide-cyclosporin prophylaxis, a ...
A bone marrow or stem cell transplant can be life-saving for those diagnosed with some blood cancers, but many don’t know that it can also cause other health issues that may last long after treatment ...