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Table 1 Patient, transplant characteristics and GVHD

From: Unrelated cord blood transplantation for adult patients with acute myeloid leukemia: higher incidence of acute graft-versus-host disease and lower survival in male patients transplanted with female unrelated cord blood—a report from Eurocord, the Acute Leukemia Working Party, and the Cord Blood Committee of the Cellular Therapy and Immunobiology Working Party of the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation

 

Other gender combination (n = 421)

Female UCB to male recipient (n = 131)

Pvaluea

Median patient age, years (range)

43 (18–70)

42 (18–67)

0.48

Median year of SCT, years (range)

2009 (2000–2013)

2009 (2000–2013)

0.24

Recipient M donor F, # (%)

0 (0)

131 (100)

/

Recipient M donor M, # (%)

119 (28)

0 (0)

 

Recipient F donor F, # (%)

157 (37)

0 (0)

 

Recipient F donor M, # (%)

145 (34)

0 (0)

 

Median time from diagn to SCT, days

210

231

0.48

Secondary AML, # (%)

72 (17)

18 (14)

0.36

Status at transplantation, # (%)

   

 CR1

233 (55)

59 (45)

0.12

 CR2+

92 (22)

36 (27)

 

 Advanced

96 (23)

36 (27)

 

Cytogenetics, # (%)

   

 Good riskb

17 (9)

14 (21)

0.005

 Intermediate riskc

56 (29)

26 (39)

 

 High riskd

47 (25)

8 (12)

 

 Not reported/failed

229

65

 

 Secondary AML

72 (37)

18 (27)

 

Recipient CMV-seronegative, # (%)

100 (28)

26 (27)

0.83

Conditioning regimen, # (%)

   

 Myeloablative

271 (65)

94 (76)

0.03

 Reduced-intensity

145 (35)

30 (24)

 

ATG, # (%)

232 (61)

65 (56)

 

TNC at infusion ×107/kg

   

 Median (range)

2.8 (0.33–40.3)

2.5 (0.4–6.10)

0.01

 Missing data (# of patients)

71

19

 

Number of HLA disparities, # (%)

   

 0–1 mismatch

121 (36)

35 (33)

 

 2–3 mismatches

213 (64)

70 (67)

0.59

 Missing data

87

26

 

Postgrafting immunosuppression, # (%)

   

 CSP alone

140 (33)

51 (39)

0.19

 CSP + MMF

215 (51)

55 (42)

 

 Other/missing

66 (16)

25 (19)

 

Acute GVHD, # (%)

   

 Grades I–IV

171 (43)

59 (49)

0.28

 Grades II–IV

99 (25)

40 (33)

0.08

 Grades III–IV

43 (11)

18 (15)

0.23

CI chronic GVHD @ 2 years, %

28

21

0.44

Death from GVHD, # (%)

29 (7)

10 (8)

0.77

  1. M male, F female, SCT stem cell transplantation, diagn diagnosis, # number of patients, tacro tacrolimus, CSP cyclosporine A, Mtx methotrexate, MMF mycophenolate mofetil
  2. aCalculated with χ 2 statistics for categorical variables and Mann-Whitney test for continuous variables
  3. bDefined as t(8;21), t(15;17), inv or del (16), acute promyelocyticleukemia, or these abnormalities only or combined with others
  4. cDefined as all cytogenetics not belonging to the good or high risk (including trisomias)
  5. dDefined as 11q23 abnormalities, complex caryotype, and abnormalities of chromosomes 5 and 7