Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease: Interdisciplinary Management - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521884233 ISBN 13: 9780521884235

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Chronic graft versus host disease (GVHD) is the most common complication of allogenic bone marrow transplantation. Because of the protracted clinical course of chronic GVHD, transplant centers and hematology/oncology offices are inadequately equipped to manage these immuno-incompetent patients with a multi-system disorder. Practitioners need to be able to recognize and effectively manage chronic GVHD as a late effect of more than half of allogenic transplantations. The text is oriented for the clinician, with chapters covering staging, organ site and system-specific manifestations, treatment options, and supportive care. Drs Georgia B. Vogelsang and Steven Z. Pavletic have been pioneers in the recognition of the multi-organ complexity of this disease and have gathered the input of a variety of subspecialist physicians for this book. This book fills the gap in practical literature on chronic GVHD, providing a comprehensive, up-to-date, and clinically relevant resource for anyone who deals with cancer patients post-transplant.

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About the Authors

Georgia B. Vogelsang, MD, is Professor of Oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

Steven Z. Pavletic, MD, is the head of the Graft versus Host and Autoimmunity Unit in the Experimental Transplantation and Immunology Branch of the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521884233
• ISBN 13: 9780521884235
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 436
• Editor: Vogelsang Georgia B., Pavletic Steven Z.