Pathology of Graft vs. Host Disease A Case Based Teaching Guide /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Yeung, Cecilia C. S. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Shulman, Howard M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Pathology.; Oncology .; Oncology.

GVHD is the major cause of non-relapse morbidity and mortality after hemopoietic cell transplantation. This text provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of the pathology of GVHD for clinicians, pathologists and researchers with an interest in GVHD. The book covers the histologic spectrum o...

Table of Contents:

• The Contributions of Pathology to the Diagnosis and Management of GVHD - Caveats and Lessons Learned
• Evolutions in the Clinical Management of GVHD
• Early GVHD with Follicular Rash
• The Basic Sequence of Injury in Acute Skin GVHD
• Leukemia Cutis and Hematologic Malignancies with Cutaneous Manifestation
• Lichenoid Inflammatory Phase of Chronic Skin GVHD
• Cutaneous Chronic GVHD: Sclerodermatous and Morpheic Variants
• Early Changes of Gut GVHD; Criteria for Crypt Cell Apoptosis and the Differential Diagnosis
• Persistent Gastrointestinal GVHD: The Application and Utility of Histologic Grading Schemes
• Chronic, Persistent, and Fatal Gastrointestinal GVHD
• Abdominal Pain and Diarrhea When it is Not GVHD
• Mucosal Chronic GVHD Affecting the Oral Pharyngeal, Esophageal, and Anogenital Regions
• Pre-Transplant Liver Disorders: Post-Transplant Impact on Developing Venocclusive Disease/Sinusoidal Occlusive Disease and Other Hepatic Problems
• The Pathological Spectrum of Hepatic GVHD
• Rapidly Progressing Cholestatic Liver Failure after Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant from Hepatitis C Positive Donor (FCHCV)
• Acute Hepatitic Onset of Liver GVHD Occurring 9 Months Post-Transplant
• GVHD Manifesting as Sicca Syndrome
• Non-Infectious Pulmonary Manifestation of GVHD: Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome
• Kidney Involvement in GVHD
• Manifestations of Chronic GVHD in Other Organ Systems.