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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 18.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2010 Jul 30;17(5):640–648. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2010.07.022

Table 1.

Patient, disease, and transplant characteristics

MMRD HLA-matched UD
Characteristics N Eval N (%) N Eval N (%) P-value
Number of patients 89 700
Age, median (range), years 89 35 (18-64) 700 43 (18-74) <0.01
Sex 89 700 0.50
 Male 50 (56) 367 (52)
 Female 39 (44) 333 (48)
Donor/Recipient race match --- 700 N/A
 Mismatched 42 ( 6)
 Matched 616 (88)
 Unknown 42 ( 6)
Karnofsky score prior to transplant 89 700 0.29
 <90 24 (27) 158 (23)
 ≥90 60 (67) 469 (67)
 Unknown 5 ( 6) 73 (10)
Disease 89 700 0.66
 AML 59 (66) 480 (69)
 ALL 30 (34) 220 (31)
Disease status 89 700 0.26
 CR1 61 (69) 437 (62)
 CR2 28 (31) 263 (38)
Cytogenetics - AML 59 480 0.63
 Low 5 ( 8) 46 (10)
 Intermediate / high 40 (68) 345 (72)
 Unknown 14 (24) 89 (19)
Cytogenetics - ALL 30 220 <0.01
 Low 13 (43) 40 (18)
 Intermediate / high 8 (27) 102 (46)
 Unknown 9 (30) 78 (36)
Graft type 89 700 0.35
 Bone Marrow 35 (39) 312 (45)
 Peripheral Blood 54 (61) 388 (55)
Conditioning regimen 89 700 0.24
 Ablative 73 (82) 535 (76)
 RIC / Non-myeloablative 16 (18) 165 (24)
Use of ATG in conditioning 87 700 0.16
 No 72 (83) 616 (88)
 Yes 15 (17) 84 (12)
GVHD prophylaxis 89 700 0.01
 CSA/FK506±others (no MTX) 10 (11) 158 (23)
 CSA/FK506 +MTX 79 (89) 542 (77)
Time from diagnosis to
transplantation, months, median
(range)
89 7 (2-183) 699 7 (1-171) 0.12
Donor relationship 89 700 N/A
 Sibling 54 (61) ---
 Parent 15 (17) ---
 Child 13 (15) ---
 Other relative 7 ( 8) ---
 Unrelated --- 700 (100)
HLA Difference 88 700
 HLA-A 39 (44) ---
 HLA-B 25 (28) ---
 HLA-DRB1 25 (28) ---
ABO match 89 700 <0.01
 Matched 51 (57) 300 (43)
 Minor mismatch 13 (15) 183 (26)
 Major mismatch /bi-directional 19 (21) 217 (31)
 Unknown 6 ( 7) 0
Donor/Recipient sex match 89 700 0.02
 Male/Male 26 (29) 266 (38)
 Male/Female 22 (25) 198 (28)
 Female/Male 24 (27) 101 (14)
 Female/Female 17 (19) 135 (19)
CMV match 89 700 <0.01
 D−/R− 20 (22) 217 (31)
 D−/R+ 14 (16) 230 (33)
 D+/R− 14 (16) 96 (14)
 D+/R+ 41 (46) 141 (20)
 Unknown 0 16 ( 2)
Donor age, year, median (range) 88 38 (9-71) 700 34 (18-60) 0.05
Year of transplant 89 700 <0.01
 1995-2000 55 (62) 169 (24)
 2001-2005 34 (38) 531 (76)
Median follow-up of survivors
(range), months
37 54 (3-135) 299 38 (10-149)
Number of death 52 401 N/A
 Primary disease 12 (23) 145 (36)
 New malignancy 0 3 ( 1)
 GVHD 9 (17) 48 (12)
 IPN 7 (13) 18 ( 4)
 Infection 9 (17) 78 (19)
 Organ failure 8 (15) 84 (21)
 Graft Failure 1 ( 2) 1 (<1)
 Hemorrhage 1 ( 2) 14 ( 3)
 Accidental death 0 2 (<1)
 Unknown 5 (10) 8 ( 2)

N=number; HLA=Human leukocyte antigen; Ag=Antigen; AML=Acute myeloid leukemia; ALL=Acute lymphoblastic leukemia; CR=Complete remission; RIC=Reduced intensity conditioning; GVHD=Graft versus host disease; CSA=Cyclosporine; FK506=Tacrolimus; MTX=Methotrexate; CMV=Cytomegalovirus; D/R=Donor/Recipient; IPN=Idiopatic pneumonia.