This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution
Access options
Subscribe to this journal
Receive 12 print issues and online access
$259.00 per year
only $21.58 per issue
Buy this article
- Purchase on Springer Link
- Instant access to full article PDF
Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout
References
Passweg JR, Baldomero H, Bader P, Bonini C, Duarte RF, Dufour C, et al. Use of haploidentical stem cell transplantation continues to increase: the 2015 European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplant activity survey report. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2017;52:811–7.
Holtan SG, Pasquini M, Weisdorf DJ. Acute graft-versus-host disease: a bench-to-bedside update. Blood. 2014;124:363–73.
Zeiser R, Blazar BR. Acute graft-versus-host disease—Biologic process, prevention, and therapy. N Engl J Med. 2017;377:2167–79.
Shlomchik WD. Graft-versus-host disease. Nat Rev Immunol. 2007;7:340–52.
Dignan FL, Clark A, Amrolia P, Cornish J, Jackson G, Mahendra P, et al. Diagnosis and management of acute graft-versus-host disease. Br J Haematol. 2012;158:30–45.
Petersdorf EW. The major histocompatibility complex: a model for understanding graft-versus-host disease. Blood. 2013;122:1863–72.
Zeiser R, Socié G, Blazar BR. Pathogenesis of acute graft-versus-host disease: from intestinal microbiota alterations to donor T cell activation. Br J Haematol. 2016;175:191–207.
Vander Lugt MT, Braun TM, Hanash S, Ritz J, Ho VT, Antin JH, et al. ST2 as a marker for risk of therapy-resistant graft-versus-host disease and death. N Engl J Med. 2013;369:529–39.
Hartwell MJ, Özbek U, Holler E, Renteria AS, Major-Monfried H. Pavan Reddy, et al. An early-biomarker algorithm predicts lethal graft-versus-host disease and survival. JCI Insight. 2017;2:e89798.
van Rheenen PF, Van de Vijver E, Fidler V. Faecal calprotectin for screening of patients with suspected inflammatory bowel disease: diagnostic meta-analysis. BMJ. 2010;341:c3369.
Rodriguez-Otero P, Porcher R, Peffault de Latour R, Contreras M, Bouhnik Y, Xhaard A, et al. Fecal calprotectin and alpha-1 antitrypsin predict severity and response to corticosteroids in gastrointestinal graft-versus-host disease. Blood. 2012;119:5909–17.
Bastos Oreiro M, Castilla-Llorente C, de la Guía AL, de Paz R, Van Domselaar M, Nieto J, et al. Fecal calprotectin in allogeneic stem cell transplantation for the diagnosis of acute intestinal graft versus host disease. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2012;47:1241–2.
Lorenz F, Marklund S, Werner M, Palmqvist R, Wahlin BE, Wahlin A. Fecal calprotectin as a biomarker of intestinal graft versus host disease after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Sci Rep. 2015;5:7920.
O’Meara A, Kapel N, Xhaard A, Sicre de Fontbrune F, Manéné D, Dhedin N, et al. Fecal calprotectin and α1-antitrypsin dynamics in gastrointestinal. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2015;50:1105–9.
Schwab L, Goroncy L, Palaniyandi S, Gautam S, Triantafyllopoulou A, Mocsai A, et al. Neutrophil granulocytes recruited upon translocation of intestinal bacteria enhance graft-versus-host disease via tissue damage. Nat Med. 2014;20:648–54.
Acknowledgements
This study was funded by an unrestricted grant from the Blood Transfusion Service, Swiss Red Cross, Basel, Switzerland.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Ethics declarations
Conflict of interest
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Schmidlin, N., Passweg, J.R., Halter, J.P. et al. Baseline calprotectin fails to predict incidence of acute gastrointestinal graft vs. host disease: a prospective study. Bone Marrow Transplant 54, 343–347 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41409-018-0292-4
Received:
Revised:
Accepted:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41409-018-0292-4