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According to two groups in the United States, 70% of all the cases of chronic graft-versus-host disease were resulting from patients that already had suffered from acute graft-versus-host disease. So, 30% appears to be primary. I do not know whether this is a very slowly developing graft-versus-host disease, or that it is a new syndrome.
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Smit Sibinga, C.T., Das, P.C., Opelz, G. (1984). Discussion. In: Smit Sibinga, C.T., Das, P.C., Opelz, G. (eds) Transplantation and Blood Transfusion. Developments in Hematology and Immunology, vol 10. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3840-6_14
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