| Literature DB >> 21677312 |
Mary Eapen1, Jennifer Le Rademacher, Joseph H Antin, Richard E Champlin, Jeanette Carreras, Joseph Fay, Jakob R Passweg, Jakub Tolar, Mary M Horowitz, Judith C W Marsh, H Joachim Deeg.
Abstract
Outcome after unrelated donor bone marrow (BM) transplantation for severe aplastic anemia (SAA) has improved, with survival rates now approximately 75%. Increasing use of peripheral blood stem and progenitor cells (PBPCs) instead of BM as a graft source prompted us to compare outcomes of PBPC and BM transplantation for SAA. We studied 296 patients receiving either BM (n = 225) or PBPC (n = 71) from unrelated donors matched at human leukocyte antigen-A, -B, -C, -DRB1. Hematopoietic recovery was similar after PBPC and BM transplantation. Grade 2 to 4 acute graft-versus-host disease risks were higher after transplantation of PBPC compared with BM (hazard ratio = 1.68, P = .02; 48% vs 31%). Chronic graft-versus-host disease risks were not significantly different after adjusting for age at transplantation (hazard ratio = 1.39, P = .14). Mortality risks, independent of age, were higher after PBPC compared with BM transplantation (hazard ratio = 1.62, P = .04; 76% vs 61%). These data indicate that BM is the preferred graft source for unrelated donor transplantation in SAA.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21677312 PMCID: PMC3167362 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2011-05-354001
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Blood ISSN: 0006-4971 Impact factor: 22.113