Research Article

Incidence and Pattern of Graft-versus-Host Disease in Patients Undergoing Allogeneic Transplantation after Nonmyeloablative Conditioning with Total Lymphoid Irradiation and Antithymocyte Globulin

Table 1

Baseline patient and disease characteristics.

Characteristics

Median age; years (range)59 (26–72)
Male gender (%)14 (66.7)
Diagnosis (%)
 Acute myeloid leukemia4
 Chronic lymphocytic leukemia3
 Chronic myeloid leukemia (blast crisis)2
 B-cell NHL9
 T-cell NHL2
 Hemophagocytic syndrome1
Disease relapse risk* (%)
 Standard risk15 (71.4%)
 High risk5 (23.8%)
 Unknown1 (4.8%)
Prior autologous transplant (%)
 Yes1 (4.8%)
 No20 (95.2%)
Donor type (%)
 Related donor5 (23.8%)
 Unrelated donor16 (76.2%)
Sex mismatch (%)
 M → M10 (47.6%)
 M → F3 (14.3%)
 F → M4 (19.0%)
 F → F4 (19.0%)
Degree of HLA match (%)
 10/1020 (95.2%)
 9/101 (4.8%)
Median KPS (range)80 (70–100)
Median HCT-CI (range)1 (0–5)
Cytomegalovirus status (%)
 Patient or donor +11 (52.4%)
 Both patient and donor +5 (23.8%)
 Both patient and donor negative4 (19.0%)
 Unknown1 (4.8%)
ABO mismatched 8
Median CD34 cell dose infused (106 cells/kg recipient) (range)6.0 (1.5–11.3)

Donor → Patient.
Abbreviations: HCT-CI: hematopoietic cell transplantation comorbidity index; KPS: Karnofsky performance score; NHL: non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
*Disease relapse-risk classification based on standard ASBMT criteria (available at http://www.asbmt.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=35/ (Last accessed February 1, 2013)).