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Symposium | The long-term burden of cGvHD
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GvHD Hub EBMT Symposium 2024: 30 years of ECP in GvHD: Recommendations for the treatment of cGvHD
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On April 14, 2024, the GvHD Hub held a symposium at the 50th European Society for Bone and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) Annual Meeting on the role of extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) in the management of chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGvHD).
Here, we share the presentation by Bipin Savani, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, US, which explored the long-term burden of cGvHD. Savani discussed organs frequently affected by cGvHD (Figure 1), comorbidities and mortality in patients with cGvHD (Figure 2), and recent progress made in improving the safety of transplantation. He highlighted that mental health disorders, such as anxiety and depression, are prevalent in patients with cGvHD and that the physical burden of symptoms contributes to limitation of daily activities in these patients.
Figure 1. Proportion of patients experiencing mouth, skin, liver, and eye symptoms of cGvHD*
cGvHD, chronic graft-versus-host disease.
*Data from Kurosawa et al.1 and Arora et al.2
Figure 2. Causes of death in long-term survivors of cGvHD*
cGvHD, chronic graft-versus-host disease.
*Adapted from Martin et al.3
Q&A session
This symposium closed with a panel Q&A session with live audience participation, where our panelists shared their perspectives on the value and challenges of ECP in pediatric patients.
Symposium | Q&A | Value and challenges of ECP in pediatric patients
Symposium | The long-term burden of cGvHD
- Kurosawa S, Oshima K, Yamaguchi T, et al. Quality of life after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation according to affected organ and severity of chronic graft-versus-host disease. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2017;23(10):1749-1758. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2017.06.011
- Arora M, Cutler CS, Jagasia MH, et al. Late acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2016;22(3):449-455. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2015.10.018
- Martin PJ, Counts Jr GW, Appelbaum FR, et al. Life expectancy in patients surviving more than 5 years after hematopoietic cell transplantation. J Clin Oncol. 2010;28(6):1011-1016. DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2009.25.6693
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GvHD Hub EBMT Symposium 2024: 30 years of ECP in GvHD: Recommendations for the treatment of cGvHD
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