ArticleBone marrow transplantation2024
ECP versus ruxolitinib in steroid-refractory chronic GVHD - a retrospective study by the EBMT transplant complications working party.
Article in Bone marrow transplantation, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.
- Optimal Treatment of Steroid-refractory Chronic Graft-versus-host Disease (cGvHD) in the Era of Novel drugs - a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Stem cell reviews and reports · 2026Pooled it
- Advances in Cell Therapy for Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease: Prophylactic and Therapeutic Perspectives.Clinical and experimental medicine · 2026Review
- Extracorporeal photopheresis alone or in combination with ruxolitinib for the treatment of chronic graft-versus-host disease.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Safety and Efficacy of Extracorporeal Photopheresis for Acute and Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- New investigational drugs for steroid-refractory acute graft-versus-host disease: a review of the literature.Expert opinion on investigational drugs · 2024Review
- Chronic graft-versus-host disease: Update on pathobiology, biomarkers, and evolving treatment algorithms.Cell transplantationReview
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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23 authors at 19 institutions in 13 countries.
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Abstract
Ruxolitinib has become the new standard of care for steroid-refractory and steroid-dependent chronic GVHD (SR-cGVHD). Our aim was to collect comparative data between ruxolitinib and extracorporeal photophoresis (ECP). We asked EBMT centers if they were willing to provide detailed information on GVHD grading, -therapy, -dosing, -response and complications for each included patient. 31 centers responded positively and we included all patients between 1/2017-7/2019 treated with ECP or ruxolitinib for moderate or severe SR-cGVHD. We identified 84 and 57 patients with ECP and ruxolitinib, respectively. We performed multivariate analyses adjusted on grading and type of SR-cGVHD (steroid dependent vs. refractory vs. intolerant to steroids). At day+180 after initiation of treatment for SR-cGVHD the odds ratio in the ruxolitinib group to achieve overall response vs. the ECP group was 1.35 (95% CI = [0.64; 2.91], p = 0.43). In line, we detected no statistically significant differences in overall survival, progression-free survival, non-relapse mortality and relapse incidence. The clinical significance is limited by the retrospective study design and the current data can't replace prospective studies on ECP in SR-cGVHD. However, the present results contribute to the accumulating evidence on ECP as an effective treatment option in SR-cGVHD.
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