Table 2

Disease-related events

Total eventsFatal events
Infections*   
    Pneumonia 
    Bacterial meningitis 
    Sepsis 
    Gastrointestinal (salmonellosis) 
    Orchitis 
    Tuberculosis 
    No. of events 17 3 
    No. of patients 12 
Bleeding§   
    ICH 18 
    Gastrointestinal 
    Ear/nose/throat 
    Pulmonary 
    Traumatic, not ICH 
    Retinal 
    No. of events 33 
    No. of patients 24 
Autoimmunity   
    Nephropathy 
    AIHA 
    Vasculitis 
    ITP 
    Arthritis 
    Colitis 
    No. of events 26 
    No. of patients 21 
Malignancy#   
    Lymphoma/EBV-LPD 
    MDS 
    Spinalioma 
    Seminoma 
    ALL 
    Pancreatic cancer 
    No. of events 10 
    No. of patients 
Total eventsFatal events
Infections*   
    Pneumonia 
    Bacterial meningitis 
    Sepsis 
    Gastrointestinal (salmonellosis) 
    Orchitis 
    Tuberculosis 
    No. of events 17 3 
    No. of patients 12 
Bleeding§   
    ICH 18 
    Gastrointestinal 
    Ear/nose/throat 
    Pulmonary 
    Traumatic, not ICH 
    Retinal 
    No. of events 33 
    No. of patients 24 
Autoimmunity   
    Nephropathy 
    AIHA 
    Vasculitis 
    ITP 
    Arthritis 
    Colitis 
    No. of events 26 
    No. of patients 21 
Malignancy#   
    Lymphoma/EBV-LPD 
    MDS 
    Spinalioma 
    Seminoma 
    ALL 
    Pancreatic cancer 
    No. of events 10 
    No. of patients 

ICH indicates intracranial hemorrhage; AIHA, autoimmune hemolytic anemia; ITP, immune thrombocytopenic purpura; ALL, acute lymphoblastic leukemia; EBV-LPD, Epstein-Barr virus–associated lymphoproliferative disease; and MDS, myelodysplastic syndrome.

*

Three patients had more than 1 infectious event.

Eight events were in patients who had undergone a previous splenectomy.

Two events were in patients who had undergone a previous splenectomy.

§

Four patients had more than 1 bleeding episode.

Fifteen were spontaneous, 3 were traumatic.

Three patients had more than 1 autoimmune disease.

#

One patient had 2 malignancies.

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