Clinical Study

CD4+CD25highCD127low Regulatory T Cells in Peripheral Blood Are Not an Independent Factor for Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease after Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation

Table 1

Patient characteristics and transplantation details.

Patients ( š‘› = 8 4 )

Age in years (median (range))46 (19ā€“67)
Gender: male/female50/34
Diagnosis:
ā€ƒAML/ALL/MDS24/11/9
ā€ƒCML/OMF7/3
ā€ƒCLL/NHL/MM5/16/6
ā€ƒAA3
Pretransplant conditioning:
Myeloablative regimens:46
ā€ƒ12 Gy TBI-cyclophosphamide/12 Gy TBI-etoposide13/3
ā€ƒBusulphan-cyclophosphamide8
ā€ƒ8 Gy TBI-fludarabine/melphalan-fludarabine4/16
ā€ƒOther2
RIC regimens:38
ā€ƒFludarabine-cyclophosphamide/fludarabine-busulphan/fludarabine-cyclophosphamide-busulphan9/3/7
ā€ƒ2 Gy-fludarabine13
ā€ƒOther6
Donor type: sibling/unrelated38/46
Stem cell source: bone marrow/peripheral stem cells2/82
HLA matching (10 antigens): match/mismatch60/24
CMV serostatus of recipient and donor: both negative/other22/62
Gender match: match/mismatch45/39
Blood group match: match/mismatch47/37
Time after transplantation in months (median (range))18 (5ā€“120)

CML: chronic myeloid leukaemia; AML: acute myeloid leukaemia; ALL: acute lymphoid leukaemia; NHL: non-Hodgkinā€™s lymphoma; OMF: osteomyelofibrosis; MM: multiple myeloma; CLL: chronic lymphatic leukaemia; MDS: myelodysplastic syndrome; AA: aplastic anaemia; RIC: reduced intensity conditioning; CMV: cytomegalovirus; TBI: total body irradiation; HLA: human leucocyte antigen.