Acute graft-versus-host disease
Acute graft-versus-host disease What every physician needs to know about acute graft-versus-host disease: Acute graft-versus-host-disease (acute GVHD) occurs when lymphocytes from another person are able to survive and proliferate in a patient; it is one of the most serious complications of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT). Rare causes of acute GVHD include maternal transfer of…