Severe acute gastrointestinal graft-vs-host disease: An emerging surgical dilemma in contemporary cancer care

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 143, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1041-1045

  Irani, Jennifer L ^a   Cutler, Corey S ^a   Whang, Edward E ^a   Clancy, Thomas E ^a   Russell, Sara ^a   Swanson, Richard S ^a   Ashley, Stanley W ^a   Zinner, Michael J ^a   Raut, Chandrajit P ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 56549115101     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.143.11.1041     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Goker H, Chao NJ. Acute graft-vs-host disease: pathobiology and management. Exp Hematol. 2001;29(3):259-277.
2. Woo SB, Lee SJ, Schubert MM. Graft-vs-host disease. Crit Rev Oral Biol Med. 1997;8(2):201-216.
3. Couriel D, Caldera H, Champlin R, Komanduri K. Acute graft-versus-host disease: pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, and management. Cancer. 2004;101(9):1936-1946.
4. Chao CN. Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of acute graft-versus-host disease. Up to Date for Patients Web site. http://www.uptodate.com/patients/ content/topic.do?topicKey=hcell_tr/7113. Accessed March 15, 2007.
5. Chirletti P, Caronna R, Arcese W, et al. Gastrointestinal emergencies in patients with acute intestinal graft-versus-host disease. Leuk Lymphoma. 1998;29(1-2):129-137.
6. Couban S, Simpson DR, Barnett MJ, et al. A randomized multicentre comparison of bone marrow and peripheral blood in recipients of matched sibling allogeneic transplants for myeloid malignancies. Blood. 2002;100(5):1525-1531.
7. Bensinger WI, Martin PJ, Storer B, et al. Transplantation of bone marrow as compared with peripheral-blood cells from HLA-identical relatives in patients with hematologic cancers. N Engl J Med. 2001;344(3):175-181.
8. Champlin RE, Schmitz N, Horowitz MM, et al. Blood stem cells compared with bone marrow as a source of hematopoietic cells for allogeneic transplantation. Blood. 2000;95(12):3702-3709.
9. Thomas ED Sr, Clift R, Fefer A, et al. Bone-marrow transplantation (second of two parts). N Engl J Med. 1975;292(17):895-902.
10. Woodruff JM, Hansen JA, Good RA, et al. The pathology of the graft-versus-host reaction (GVHR) in adults receiving bone marrow transplants. Transplant Proc. 1976;8(4):675-684.
11. Jones AD, Maziarz R, Gilster J, Domreis J, Deveney CW, Sheppard BC. Surgical complications of bone marrow transplantation. Am J Surg. 2003;185(5):481-484.
12. Holmberg L, Kikuchi K, Gooley TA, et al. Gastrointestinal graft-versus-host disease in recipients of autologous hematopoietic stem cells: incidence, risk factors, and outcome. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2006;12(2):226-234.
13. Ross WA, Couriel D. Colonic graft-versus-host disease. Curr Opin Gastroenterol. 2005;21(1):64-69.
14. Kalantari BN, Mortelé KJ, Cantisani V, et al. CT Features with pathologic correlation of acute gastrointestinal graft-versus-host disease after bone marrow transplantation in adults. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2003;181(6):1621-1625.
15. Wong Kee Song LMM. Necrotizing enterocolitis (typhlitis) in adults. Up to Date for Patients Web site. http://www.uptodate.com/patients/content/topic.do? topicKey=~6o2bD5vwHWhehMb. Accessed March 15, 2007.
16. Evans J, Percy J, Eckstein R, Ma D, Schnitzler M. Surgery for intestinal graft-versus-host disease: report of two cases. Dis Colon Rectum. 1998;41(12):1573-1576.
17. Barker JN, Weisdorf DJ, DeFor TE, et al. Transplantation of 2 partially HLA-matched umbilical cord blood units to enhance engraftment in adults with hematologic malignancy. Blood. 2005;105(3):1343-1347.
18. Faraci M, Dallorso S, Morreale G, et al. Surgery for acute graft-versus-host disease of the bowel: description of a pediatric case. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2004;26(7):441-443.
19. Shabahang M, Pasquale MD, Bitterman P, Cirenza E, Spitzer T, Evans SRT. Massive hematochezia secondary to graft-versus-host disease and cytomegalovirus. Am J Gastroenterol. 1994;89(4):632-633.
20. Herr AL, Latulippe JF, Carignan S, Mitchell A, Belanger R, Roy J. Is severe intestinal chronic graft-versus-host disease an indication for surgery? a report of two cases. Transplantation. 2004;77(10):1617-1620.