This presentation discusses various ways that acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) can affect the skin, hair, and nails; when symptoms typically occur; and how chronic GVHD of the skin can affect activities of daily living. It also reviews how the various type of skin GVHD are treated.

Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a common complication after a stem cell transplant with donor cells (allogeneic transplant). This presentation discusses the manifestations of chronic GVHD on the skin, hair, and nails; how skin GVHD can affect activities of daily living; and pharmacologic and non-pharmacological therapies that can help patients who have skin GVHD