eMedicine - Graft Versus Host Disease : Article by Romeo A Mandanas, MD, FACP
| Title: | eMedicine - Graft Versus Host Disease : Article by Romeo A Mandanas, MD, FACP |
| URL: | http://www.emedicine.com/MED/topic926.htm |
| Description: | Graft Versus Host Disease - Barnes and Loutit first described (in mice) what is now known as graft versus host disease (GVHD) as a syndrome called secondary disease to differentiate it from primary disease of radiation sickness. Mice that were given allogeneic spleen cells after irradiation developed fatal secondary disease (skin abnormalities and diarrhea), which was a result of introducing immunologically competent cells into an immunoincompetent host.Human GVHD occurs after allogeneic stem-cell transplantation, with features similar to those observed in ... graft versus host disease, graft versus host disease, gvhd, gvh disease, graft-versus-hose disease, dermatitis, hepatitis, enteritis, allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation, hct, marrow aplasia, acute gvhd, chronic gvhd, |
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