Acute graft-versus-host disease after li
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Srinath Chinnakotla; Douglas M. Smith; Rana Domiati-Saad; Edward D. Agura; David
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) after liver transplantation is rare but associated with a very high mortality (over 85%). Most treatments focus on increasing immunosuppression, addition of antibody preparations such as OKT3 and antithymocyte globulin to eliminate the donor lymphocytes, and supporti