Longitudinal tracking of skin dynamic stiffness to quantify evolution of sclerosis in chronic graft-versus-host disease

Laura X Baker; Fuyao Chen; Yvette Ssempijja; Michael Byrne; Tae Kon Kim; Arved Vain; Madan Jagasia; Eric R Tkaczyk

doi:10.1038/s41409-020-01158-w

Longitudinal tracking of skin dynamic stiffness to quantify evolution of sclerosis in chronic graft-versus-host disease

Bone Marrow Transplant. 2021 Apr;56(4):989-991. doi: 10.1038/s41409-020-01158-w. Epub 2020 Dec 5.

Authors

Laura X Baker^{1

2}, Fuyao Chen^{1

2

3

4}, Yvette Ssempijja^{1

2

5}, Michael Byrne⁶, Tae Kon Kim⁶, Arved Vain⁷, Madan Jagasia⁸, Eric R Tkaczyk^{9

10

11

12}

Affiliations

¹ Dermatology Service and Research Service, Department of Veterans Affairs Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, TN, USA.
² Vanderbilt Dermatology Translational Research Clinic, Department of Dermatology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
³ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
⁴ Medical Scientist Training Program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
⁵ Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN, USA.
⁶ Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
⁷ University of Tartu Institute of Physics, Tartu, Estonia.
⁸ , Nashville, TN, USA.
⁹ Dermatology Service and Research Service, Department of Veterans Affairs Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, TN, USA. eric.tkaczyk@vumc.org.
¹⁰ Vanderbilt Dermatology Translational Research Clinic, Department of Dermatology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA. eric.tkaczyk@vumc.org.
¹¹ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA. eric.tkaczyk@vumc.org.
¹² Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN, USA. eric.tkaczyk@vumc.org.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Chronic Disease
Graft vs Host Disease* / etiology
Graft vs Host Disease* / pathology
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation*
Humans
Sclerosis / pathology
Skin / pathology

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding