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The Eye in Bone Marrow TransplantationIII. Conjunctival Graft-vs-Host Disease
Douglas A. Jabs, MD;
John Wingard, MD;
W. Richard Green, MD;
Evan R. Farmer, MD;
Georgia Vogelsang, MD;
Rein Saral, MD
Arch Ophthalmol. 1989;107(9):1343-1348.
Abstract
• Of a series of 263 patients undergoing allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT), 24 patients developed conjunctival involvement by graft-vs-host disease (GVHD). In each case, a distinctappearing conjunctivitis developed that represented GVHD of the conjunctiva. In 19 cases (79%), conjunctival GVHD presented with pseudomembrane formation due to loss of the conjunctival epithelium; in 4 of these cases, the corneal epithelium was lost as well. Nineteen patients developed this feature in association with acute GVHD, and mortality among these patients was 89.5%. Kaplan-Meier analysis of survival demonstrated a decreased survival of patients with conjunctival involvement compared with all marrow transplant recipients and compared with all patients with GVHD. However, survival was similar to that seen in patients with severe systemic GVHD (overall stages II through IV). Five patients developed conjunctival GVHD in association with chronic GVHD, and all had severe chronic GVHD. Four of these five with chronic GVHD subsequently died. Conjunctival involvement by GVHD represents a distinct clinical finding and is a marker for severe systemic involvement by GVHD. A clinical staging system for ocular involvement was formulated.
Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Ophthalmology (Drs Jabs and Green) and Dermatology (Dr Farmer) and the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit (Drs Wingard, Vogelsang, and Saral), The Johns Hopkins Oncology Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication April 17, 1989.
Reprint requests to The Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Wilmer 300, 600 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21205 (Dr Jabs).
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