Challenging and Practical Aspects of Nutrition in Chronic Graft-versus-host Disease

Chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) occurs in 30% to 70% of allogeneic stem cell transplant recipients and represents a major cause of morbidity and late mortality. [1,2] Chronic GVHD is a syndrome that can affect the skin, mouth, eye, muscle, fascia, joints, gastrointestinal tract (GIT), liver and lungs resembling autoimmune and other immunologic disorders such as scleroderma, Sjogren's syndrome, primary biliary cirrhosis, bronchiolitis obliterans or immune cytopenia. [1,2]

Source: Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation - August 8, 2020 Category: Hematology Authors: Andrea Z Pereira, Sandra Elisa Adami Gon çalves, Morgani Rodrigues, Nelson Hamerschlak, Mary E Flowers Source Type: research