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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2012 Mar 16;18(9):1438–1445. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2012.03.003

Table 2.

A. Primary cause of death between 2 – 6 years
Causes of death SCID
N=10
Non-SCID
N=12
IEM
N=27
Total
N=49
Chronic GVHD 2 5 7 14
Infection without GVHD* 3 2 6 11
Organ failure** 3 10 13
PTLD – EBV positive 1 1 2
Acute myeloid leukemia 2 2
Graft failure 1 1
Seizure 1 1
Accidental death 1 1 2
Acute abdomen 1 1
Not reported 1 1 2
B. Primary cause of death beyond 6 years
Causes of death SCID
N=4
Non-SCID
N=3
IEM
N=10
Total
N=17
Chronic GVHD 2 2
Infection without GVHD* 2 1 2 5
Organ failure** 1 2 3
Brain stem glioma 1 1
Not reported 1 1 4 6

Abbreviations: GVHD = graft-versus-host disease; PTLD-EBV = post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease – Epstein-Barr virus associated

*

Infection without GVHD: bacterial (n=8), viral (n=1) and no isolate (n=2)

**

Organ failure: multi-organ failure (n=1 IEM), cardiac (n=2 SCID; n=3 IEM) and pulmonary (n=1 SCID; n=5 IEM)

Abbreviations: GVHD = graft-versus-host disease

*

Infection without GVHD: bacterial infection (n=3), viral (n=1) and no isolate (n=1)

**

Organ failure: cardiac failure (n=1 SCID), pulmonary failure (n=1 IEM) and progressive neurological deterioration, Gaucher disease (n=1)