Timing of Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Yield: Comparison of Alternative Methods with the Classic Method for CD34⁺ Cell Determination

Table 1

Characteristics of the patients and general data concerning leukaphereses.

Summary statistics; general data
Total number of patients (M/F)	84 ()
Age (mean; median; range)	53; 58; 19–67 years
Dg.: MM, HL + NHL, AL, solid tumor/donors	49, 24, 3,
Dose of growth factor	5–10 g/kg/day
Start of PBSC collection (harvest)	6th–12th day
Duration of leukapheresis (mean; range)	244; 125–286 minutes
Number of leukaphereses (total number; mean; range)	266; 3; 1–6 days
PBSC yield (mean; range)	5.9; 0.1–21.3 × 10^6 CD34^+ cells/kg

M = male; F = female; MM = multiple myeloma; HL = Hodgkin lymphoma; NHL = non-Hodgkin lymphoma; PBSC = peripheral blood stem cells.