Transfusions shortly before HLA-matched marrow transplantation for leukemia are associated with a decrease in chronic graft-versus-host disease.
Journal Article (Clinical Trial;Journal Article)
The effect of random red cell transfusions given shortly before allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) was evaluated in 969 leukemic patients transplanted from an HLA-identical sibling donor. Patients were divided into two groups: 501 who received a transfusion shortly before BMT, and 468 who did not. Both groups had a similar incidence of acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), but the recently-transfused group had a significantly lower incidence of chronic GVHD (35.9% vs 48.9%). These differences remained significant in a multivariate analysis of time to chronic GVHD (p = 0.022), taking into account other differences between the two groups and known risk factors for chronic GVHD.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- deGast, GC; Beatty, PG; Amos, D; Mickelson, EM; Sullivan, KM; Anderson, JE; Giblett, ER; Appelbaum, F; Storb, R; Deeg, HJ
Published Date
- April 1991
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 7 / 4
Start / End Page
- 293 - 295
PubMed ID
- 2070135
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0268-3369
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- England