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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2012 Nov 27;19(2):173–179. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2012.11.016

Table 5.

Causes of death

Autologous HLA-identical sibling Unrelated/
mismatched related
N (%) N (%) N (%)
Number of deaths 56 54 37
     Primary disease 44 (79) 39 (72) 22 (59)
     GVHD 1 (2) 3 (6) 1 (3)
     Pulmonary syndrome 0 3 (6) 3 (8)
     Infection 2 (4) 4 (7) 2 (5)
     Organ Failure 0 3 (6) 5 (14)
     Others* 9 (16) 2 (4) 4 (11)

Abbreviation GVHD = graft versus host disease

*

Others include: new malignancy (n=3), hemorrhage (n=1), spongiform disorder brain (n=1), bilateral pneumonia ARDS (n=1), not specified (n=9)