Graft-Vs.-Host Disease: Immunology, Pathophysiology, and Treatment (Haematology S.) - Tapa dura

With the widespread use of blood marrow transplantation for the treatment of leukemias and other malignancies, radiation sickness, and certain inborn errors of metabolism, combined with the increasing use of allogenic donors, the high prevalence and increasing significance of GVHD has become widely apparent. This presentation includes introductory perspectives with each section that make it useful to nonexperts in the field and to clinicians in the wide range of specialties dealing with GVHD. Coverage is of current knowledge of lymphocyte development and function with the most effective means available for GVHD prevention and treatment. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.