ASTCT Practice Guidelines vs eGVHD

ASTCT practice guidelines and clinical calculators for blood and bone marrow transplantation, and cellular therapies. The ASTCT Practice Guidelines application provides up to date access to practice guidelines, evidence-based reviews and position statements from the ASTCT Committee on Practice Guidelines. These documents are developed and updated by leading experts in the field of blood and bone marrow transplantation and cellular therapy. In addition the app includes clinical calculators relevant to HCT patients. These tools will allow immediate access to information that can help guide clinical decision making. Topics covered include: • General guidelines • Conditioning regimens • Stem cell collection and mobilization • Graft-Versus-Host disease • HCT for Malignant and non-Malignant Hematologic Diseases, including pediatric and adult patients • Supportive Care • Survivorship Detailed references and full access to source papers is also provided. The American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT) is an international professional membership association of physicians, investigators and other health care professionals, dedicated to improving the application and success of blood and marrow transplantation and related cellular therapies.

The “eGVHD App” is developed by the UZ Leuven (Belgium) in collaboration with the EBMT (European Bone Marrow Transplantation Society) Transplantation Complications Working Party and the National Institute of Health (Bethesda, USA). It is an electronic tool designed as an algorithm-driven application, to help clinicians apply the internationally recognized criteria for the assessment of graft versus host disease (GVHD), a pleiotropic disease affecting allogeneic stem cell transplantation recipients when their transplanted stem cells react against their own body. This app is not a medical tool aiming at replacing the diagnosis of a clinician, but a user-friendly educational tool. It helps health care professionals improve their ability to diagnose and score the severity of GVHD by showing the user differential information and it making an automatic summary of what has been filled in.