GVHD-related skin issues can range from mild to severe, so work closely with your GVHD care team to manage and treat them. Lifestyle changes, medications, and a type of light therapy can all help ...

Up to 70 percent of people with acute GVHD will experience skin problems, including dry, itchy, or sensitive skin, along with rashes or redness of the feet and palms, says Dr. Borogovac. [1] ...

No skin GVHD was observed in mice that had full Langerhans cell chimerism at time of the second transplant (d). Results shown are representative of two separate mice. Magnification, x200.

"We're trying to move away a little bit from the notion that seven out of eight or six out of eight is better than five out ...

Severity ranges from mild to deadly. Acute GVHD arises within 100 days after transplant often occurs at regions where the body meets — and repels — the external world, like the gut and the skin. GVHD ...

Less emphasis on full HLA matching means clinicians can find an appropriate donor for any patient, says Antonio Jimenez ...

Achieving donor chimerism or GVHD after infusion boosted survival only in relapse cases without prior GVHD, revealing a key ...

Results from the preclinical GVHD model showed mice that received a fiber-rich diet — defined as 12% cellulose — exhibited a significant reduction in GVHD lethality (P = .02), greater ...

Skin is the most commonly affected organ in graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). To explore the role of Langerhans cells in GVHD, the principal dendritic cells of the skin, we studied the fate of ...