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2021-04-07T11:49:08.000Z

How can CMV infection increase the risk of chronic GvHD?

By Paola Frisone, Georgia Scurfield, Maria Kasimati
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Katrine Kielsen
Apr 7, 2021
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During the 47th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT), the GvHD Hub spoke to Katrine Kielsen, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, DK. We asked, How can CMV infection increase the risk of chronic GvHD?

How can CMV infection increase the risk of chronic GvHD?

Kielsen discusses the results from a study reported at EBMT 2021, showing that cytomegalovirus (CMV)-associated thymus dysfunction leads to an increased risk of chronic GvHD development.

 

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