What forms of graft-vs.-host disease are there?

Graft-vs.-host disease is an immune attack on the recipient by cells from a donor.

The only transplanted tissues that house enough immune cells to cause graft vs. host disease are the blood and the bone marrow.

Both the acute and the chronic disease are treated with cortisone-like drugs, immunosuppressive agents like cyclosporine, or with antibiotics and immune chemicals from donated blood

What does the term "Graft versus host disease" mean? Immunologic reaction involving the attack of host cells by donor immune cells.

The tissues most affected by bone marrow graft-vs.-host disease are the skin, the liver, and the intestines. One form or the other occurs in close to half of the patients