Time to engraftment, transfusion requirements, graft-versus-host disease
. | BMT . | PBSCT . | P . |
---|---|---|---|
Time to engraftment, median (range), d | |||
Neutrophils > 500/μL | 22 (13-52) | 17 (8-28) | < .01 |
Platelets > 20 000/μL | 22 (12-54) | 17 (10-60) | < .01 |
Platelets > 50 000/μL | 26 (17-174) | 22 (12-129) | < .05 |
Transfusions, no. units (range) | |||
Red cells, median | 12 (4-166) | 8 (4-24) | < .04 |
Platelets, median | 19 (4-326) | 8 (2-27) | < .02 |
Acute GVHD by grade, no. (%) | |||
0 | 8 (15) | 7 (19) | NS |
I | 23 (43) | 15 (41) | NS |
II | 10 (19) | 12 (32) | NS |
III | 7 (13) | 2 (5) | NS |
IV | 6 (11) | 1 (3) | NS |
II − IV | 23 (43) | 15 (41) | NS |
III + IV | 13 (24) | 3 (8) | < .05 |
Chronic GVHD,* no. (%) | |||
No GVHD | 9 (19) | 4 (17) | NS |
Limited | 27 (55) | 22 (59) | NS |
Extensive | 13 (26) | 10 (28) | NS |
. | BMT . | PBSCT . | P . |
---|---|---|---|
Time to engraftment, median (range), d | |||
Neutrophils > 500/μL | 22 (13-52) | 17 (8-28) | < .01 |
Platelets > 20 000/μL | 22 (12-54) | 17 (10-60) | < .01 |
Platelets > 50 000/μL | 26 (17-174) | 22 (12-129) | < .05 |
Transfusions, no. units (range) | |||
Red cells, median | 12 (4-166) | 8 (4-24) | < .04 |
Platelets, median | 19 (4-326) | 8 (2-27) | < .02 |
Acute GVHD by grade, no. (%) | |||
0 | 8 (15) | 7 (19) | NS |
I | 23 (43) | 15 (41) | NS |
II | 10 (19) | 12 (32) | NS |
III | 7 (13) | 2 (5) | NS |
IV | 6 (11) | 1 (3) | NS |
II − IV | 23 (43) | 15 (41) | NS |
III + IV | 13 (24) | 3 (8) | < .05 |
Chronic GVHD,* no. (%) | |||
No GVHD | 9 (19) | 4 (17) | NS |
Limited | 27 (55) | 22 (59) | NS |
Extensive | 13 (26) | 10 (28) | NS |
For abbreviations, see Table 1.
Number of evaluated patients was 49 in the BMT group and 36 in the PBSCT group.