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Extracorporeal photopheresis

Service improvement in a nurse-led clinic for extracorporeal photopheresis

ECP is a leukapheresis-based form of cellular immunotherapy that is used to treat a variety of T-cell mediated diseases including cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) and both acute and chronic...

Monitoring lung function in patients with chronic graft versus host disease: a pilot study

Between 1 November 2016 and 31 December 2017, cGvHD patients attending for ECP were supplied with a handheld peak flow meter (Mini-Wright, Clement Clarke), educated on how to accurately perform peak...

Adrenal insufficiency of patients with graft versus host disease treated with extracorporeal photopheresis

The aim of this case review was to ascertain the number of patients with adrenal insufficiency among those who have received ECP for GvHD and discontinued steroid treatment. ECP is a treatment that...

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