Clinical Study

CMV Serostatus of Donor-Recipient Pairs Influences the Risk of CMV Infection/Reactivation in HSCT Patients

Table 1

Patient characteristics.

Number of patients200
Age
 (median, range), yrs34, 1–60
 Adults 16 yrs174
 Children 16 yrs26
Recipient gender
 Female91
 Male109
Donor gender
 Female83
 Male116
Donor
 Sibling78
 Unrelated HLA matched (10/10 at the allele level), 78
 Mismatched, at the allele or low resolution levels up to two mismatches 44
Transplant material
 Bone marrow (BM)28
 Peripheral blood progenitor cells (PBPC)172
Diagnosis
 Hematological malignancies (HM)175
  Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)24
  Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)5
  Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)67
  Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL)39
  Other HM40
 Anemias and immunodeficiencies24
 Osteopetrosis1
Conditioning regimen
 Myeloablative105
 Reduced intensity conditioning (RIC)95
Acute GvHD, grades
 0114
  I21
  II26
  III16
  IV23
Chronic GvHD
 Extensive38
 Limited33
EBV DNA copies/105 cells45/187
CMV DNA copies/105 cells54/187
HHV6 DNA copies/105 cells34/187
Polyoma (JC/BK)19/33
CMV IgG serostatus
 Recipients
  CMV IgG negative32
  CMV IgG positive168
 Donors
  CMV IgG negative66
  CMV IgG positive132
 Recipient/donor CMV serostatus
  Recipient CMV IgG (+)/donor CMV IgG (+)118
  Recipient CMV IgG (−)/donor CMV IgG (−)18
  Recipient CMV IgG (+)/donor CMV IgG (−)48
  Recipient CMV IgG (−)/donor CMV IgG (+)14