Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD) Resources

• How I treat chronic graft-versus-host disease, by Georgia B. Vogelsang, from Blood, March 1, 2001, Vol. 97, No. 5, pages 1196-1201. This article reviews the pathophysiology, risk factors, clinical manifestations, evaluation, treatment, and supportive care of chronic GVHD.

• Graft-Versus-Host Disease in Children Who Have Received a Cord-Blood or Bone Marrow Transplant from an HLa-Identical Sibling, from the New England Journal of Medicine June 22, 1999, Vol 342, No. 25, page 1846, by Vanderson Rocha et al. (registration, which is free is required). This study compared 113 children (under the age of 15) who underwent cord-blood transplants from matched siblings with 2052 children who under went bone marrow transplants from matched siblings donors. Recipients of cord blood were less likely to have GVHD (both acute and chrnoic), but engraftment took longer.

• Graft Versus Host Disease by Melanie K Kuechle, MD, from the eMedicine World Medicine Library. This is a very technical review of the diagnosis, and treatment of GVHD, includes an overview of the symptoms, and treatment for acute and chronic GVHD.

• Transplantation Biology, GvHD, a description of Research Projects for 1998-1999 from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology of the University of Miami School of Medicine.

• Control of Graft versus host disease, from Frontiers in Bioscience.

• Graft-versus-Host-Disease Web Site provides information on Graft-versus-Host Disease in English and en Francais. Le Site GVH en Francais.