graft-versus-host disease
GVHD

His work also reduced the likelihood of developing a life-threatening complication called graft-versus-host disease.

Furthermore, there is virtually no incidence of graft-versus-host disease.

Although there was some graft-versus-host disease, it was less destructive than expected.

Umbilical cord blood transplants also cause fewer problems with graft-versus-host disease.

Even more dangerous would be an attack on the patient by the transplant, a potentially fatal reaction known as graft-versus-host disease.

Two patients in the study died of complications from graft-versus-host disease.

T-cells are the ones that recognize the host as foreign, leading to graft-versus-host disease.

But then they looked at Henry, whose parents feared he was showing early signs of graft-versus-host disease - something Molly would almost certainly never get.

And it makes rejection and graft-versus-host disease less likely.

Butcher died on August 5, 2006 after fighting graft-versus-host disease and learning that the cancer had returned.