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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Feb 21.
Published in final edited form as: Photodermatol Photoimmunol Photomed. 2010 Aug;26(4):182–191. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0781.2010.00514.x

Table 3.

Comparison of baseline parameters in favorable (Group 1) and poor (Group 2) response patients on extracorporeal photopheresis momotherapgy

Parameters Group 1 (n=12) Group 2 (n=9) P-value
Age (years) 65 (31–79)* 67 (44–80) 0.859
Duration of disease (months) 23 (4–240) 54 (8–207) 0.394
WBC/µl 7.8 (5.2–17.6) 8.7 (3.8–12.2) 0.394
Lymphocyte count/mm3 2062 (928–11 616) 2871 (1078–6588) 0.887
Eosinophils/mm3 388 (61–1545) 87 (0–351) 0.008
Sézary cells/100 lymphocytes 32 (0–51) 54 (36–85) 0.001
Sézary cells/mm3 657 (0–5576) 2010 (496–5039) 0.155
%CD4+ cells 83 (42–98) 85 (38–92) 0.499
CD4+ (cells/mm3) 1585 (390–11 384) 2268 (523–5863) 0.943
%CD8+ cells 6.5 (0.5–24) 5 (1–45) 0.887
CD8+ (cells/mm3) 118 (58–447) 154 (24–1279) 0.887
CD4/CD8 ratio 12.4 (1.8–196) 17.0 (1.2–88) 0.522
LDH (U/l) 208 (170–336) 248 (161–602) 0.355
IgE (U/l) 92 (2–2716) 35 (5–630) 0.434
IL-5 (pg/ml) 0.06 (0–0.18) 0 (0–0.21) 0.345
IL-10 (pg/ml) 0.14 (0–30.02) 0.63 (0–3.21) 0.504
IL-12 (pg/ml) 0.06 (0–12.69) 0.01 (0–3.20) 0.720
TNF-α (pg/ml) 0.45 (0–1.34) 0.45 (0–4.78) 0.626
*

Values given as median (range).

Patient 3 not studied.

LDH, lactate dehydrogenase; IL, interleukin.