Despite preservation methods, surgical procedures, current immunosuppressive therapy
regimens advances, organ transplantation is accompanied with a poor long-term survival …

MATErIAlS AnD METhODS The study was a retrospective follow-up based on a review of
clinical files. Six patients, 3 men and 3 women, age range 33–63 (mean 46) years treated …

Background: Extracorporeal photopheresis is a therapy based on the induction of apoptosis
to cells harvested from peripheral blood, followed by direct retransfusion. Currently, there …

Chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is the most important cause of late morbidity and
mortality in recipients of allogeneic blood and marrow transplantation. Despite increased …

Since ancient times, many cultures worldwide found out independently that the topical
administration of some photoactive natural products (mainly extracted from plants) followed …

Porphyrins are used as photosensitizer (PS) in photodynamic therapy in cancer treatment.
Nevertheless, the development of photochemotherapy in oncology remains limited, because …

In clinical practice, graft‐versus‐host disease (GVHD) is most frequently encountered in
patients who receive a bone marrow transplant (BMT). Immune cells (white blood cells) in …

Background Extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) is an efficient and established therapy to
treat acute and chronic graft vs host disease (GVHD). Using an “off‐line” method, the first …

The introduction of potent immunosuppressive agents over the past thirty years is one of the
factors that has led to significant improvements in posttransplant survival in the current era of …

Extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP or photopheresis) is an advanced therapeutic apheresis
procedure in which blood is separated into its various components and the isolated buffy …