How to Use graft-versus-host disease in a Sentence

graft-versus-host disease

noun

• That means there is less risk of graft-versus-host disease or a rejection of the stem cells.
  — AZCentral.com, 9 June 2021
• Donor stem cells can go on the attack post-transplant, a condition known as graft-versus-host disease.
  — Terry Tang, The Seattle Times, 10 Sep. 2018
• But twice her body was attacked by graft-versus-host disease; her donor stem cells rejected by her body.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 18 July 2019
• Even five years ago, using a donor who was a half match was impossible because the risk of graft-versus-host disease was too high.
  — Ginny Graves, Good Housekeeping, 17 Nov. 2020
• Patients with the highest levels of MAIT cells had the lowest incidence of graft-versus-host disease.
  — Kate Ann Markey, The Conversation, 13 July 2022
• Up to 50% of patients who receive a stem cell transplant develop graft-versus-host disease.
  — Kate Ann Markey, The Conversation, 13 July 2022
• The donor’s immune cells can attack the recipient’s body, a condition called graft-versus-host disease, or GVHD.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 10 Feb. 2022
• There are other treatments used to prevent a cytokine storm in patients suffering from graft-versus-host disease.
  — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 June 2020
• These patients develop a complication called graft-versus-host disease, in which the donor marrow mistakes the patient's own cells for foreign invaders, and attacks them.
  — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 June 2020
• In such cases, ruxolitinib has proved successful in interrupting the chain of events that leads graft-versus-host disease to develop into a cytokine storm.
  — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 June 2020
• Unfortunately, the transplant triggered a rare form of chronic graft-versus-host disease, in which the donor's immune cells attack the recipient's normal cells.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 22 Dec. 2017
• But finding a matching cell donor can be difficult, and a transplant can lead to graft-versus-host disease, a potentially deadly condition in which donor cells attack a patient’s cells.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 11 Aug. 2021
• If absolutely necessary, one of them could donate their marrow, thanks to recent advances that minimize graft-versus-host disease with half matches.
  — Ginny Graves, Good Housekeeping, 17 Nov. 2020
• Tinkov resigned as Tinkoff Bank’s chairman in 2020 after being diagnosed with acute leukemia and is battling graft-versus-host disease following a bone marrow transplant.
  — Derek Saul, Forbes, 3 May 2022
• Above-average levels of these cells were also associated with better survival and less graft-versus-host disease in transplant patients.
  — Kate Ann Markey, The Conversation, 13 July 2022
• Beyond that, there are dozens of ongoing clinical trials for conditions ranging from schizophrenia to Crohn’s disease to graft-versus-host disease—not to mention the appearance of CBD in consumer products ranging from oils to coffee to tampons.
  — Amber Dance, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 6 Aug 2024