Tanei R, Ohta Y, Ishihara S, Katsuoka K, Yokono H, Motoori T. Transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease: an in situ hybridization analysis of the infiltrating donor-derived cells in the cutaneous lesion.
Dermatology 1999;
199:20-4. [PMID:
10449952 DOI:
10.1159/000018172]
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Abstract
BACKGROUND
Acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) can occur after a blood transfusion.
OBJECTIVE
In order to elucidate the pathomechanisms responsible for transfusion-associated GVHD, infiltrating donor-derived cells in a cutaneous lesion were analyzed.
METHODS
A skin sample obtained from a 69-year-old woman who developed fatal GVHD after blood transfusions from male donors was studied by performing in situ hybridization (ISH) with a Y-chromosome-specific probe.
RESULTS
The cell infiltrates comprised mainly CD3+ T lymphocytes. Immunohistochemistry and ISH in combination demonstrated that 99% (182/184) of the Y-body-positive cells were CD3+. Y bodies were observed in 80% of the CD8+ cells in the epidermis and dermoepidermal junction and in 77 and 45% of the CD8+ and CD4+ cells, respectively, in the dermis.
CONCLUSION
These findings suggest that both CD4+ and CD8+ cells of donor origin were involved in the development of cutaneous GVHD.
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