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Graft Vs. Host Disease Learning Center

Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a complication that can occur after a bone marrow transplant in which the newly transplanted material attacks the transplant recipient's body. See also: Transplant rejection
Source:ADAM
Date:July 11, 2008
Graft-vs.-host disease is an immune attack on the recipient by cells from a donor.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Graft-vs.-host disease is a response by the immune system that occurs when cells from a blood or bone marrow donor attack those of the recipient. The only transplanted tissues that contain enough immune cells to cause graft-vs.-host disease are th...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
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