Prof Lisbet Sviland

Lisbet Sviland MB BS, PhD, FRCPath

Professor/Consultant Department of Pathology Haukeland
University Hospital
5021 Bergen
Norway

mailto:Lsvi@helse-bergen.no

Prof Sviland is a pathologist who provides the central facility for the histological and immunohistochemical assessment of skin explant biopsies.

Research areas:

- Grading of biopsies according to severity of GVHR.

- Immunohistochemistry to evaluate HSP 70 expression, apotosis and dendritic cells.

- Confocal microscopy and chimerism studies in collaboration with University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Research technician: Edith Fick

mailto:Edith.fick@iac.uib.no

Selected relevant publications:

L Sviland, AM Dickinson, P Carey, ADJ Pearson, SJ Proctor. An in vitro test for graft-versus-host disease, correlation with clinical GVHD stage in allogeneic bone marrow transplant recipients. Bone Marrow Transplantation 1990;5:105-109.

AM Dickinson, L Sviland, J Dunn, P Carey, SJ Proctor. Demonstration of direct involvement of cytokines in graft-versus-host reactions using an in vitro human skin explant model. Bone Marrow Transplantation 1991;7:209-216.

L Sviland, ADJ Pearson ; MA Green et al. Immunopathology of early graft-versus-host disease – a prospective study of skin, rectum and peripheral blood in allogeneic and autologous bone marrow transplant recipients. Transplantation 1991;52:1029-1036.

AM Dickinson, L Sviland, XN Wang et al. Predicting graft-versus-host disease in HLA-identical bone marrow transplants: a comparison of T-cell frequency analysis and a human skin explant model. Transplantation 1998;66:857-863.

L Sviland, AM Dickinson. A human skin explant model for predicting graft-versus-host disease following bone marrow transplantation. J Clin Path 1999;52:910-913.

L Sviland. The pathology of bone marrow transplantation. Current Diagnostic Pathology 2000;6:242-250.

L Sviland, I Hrodmadnikova, M Cermakova et al. Histological correlation between different centres using the skin explant model to predict graft-versus-host disease following bone marrow transplantation. Hum Immunol 2001;62:1277-1281.

AM Dickinson, J Cavet, H Cullup, XN Wang, L Sviland, PG Middleton. GVHD risk assessment in haematopoietic stem cell transplantation – role of cytokine gene polymorphisms and an in vitro human skin explant model. Hum Immunol 2001;62:1266-1276.

M Jarvis, U Schulz, AM Dickinson, L Sviland et al. The detection of apoptosis in a human skin explant assay for graft versus host reactions. J Clin Path 2002;55:127-132.

AM Dickinson. XN Wang, L Sviland et al. In situ dissection of graft-versus-host disease graft-versus-leukaemia effects by minor histocompatibility antigen specific cytotoxic T cells. Nature Medicine 2002;8:410-414.

M Jarvis, M Marzolini, XN Wang, G Jackson, L Sviland, AM Dickinson. Heat shock protein 70: Correlation of expression with degree of graft-versus-host response and clinical GVHD. Transplantation 2003;76:849-853.