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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 28.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2009 Oct 14;16(2):287–291. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2009.10.008

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of EBV-monitored patients as compared to historical controls

Factors Historical Controls Current Cohort P-value
Number of patients 30 34 NA
Median age (year) 55 (19–69) 56 (36–67) .24
Median weight (kg) 85 (50–134) 80 (52–111) .08
CMV-positive recipients 12 (40%) 24 (71%) .02
Median infused nucleated cell dose × 108/kg 0.35 (0.21–0.68) 0.35 (0.22–0.59) .94
Median infused CD34+ cell dose × 106/kg 0.44 (0.07–1.66) 0.38 (0.14–1.32) .27
Median time to follow up (day) 219 (7–1056) 339 (31–765) .59
HLA match (worst match) <.01
 6 of 6 0 1 (3%)
 5 of 6 0 16 (47%)
 4 of 6 30 (100%) 17 (50%)
No. of UCB recipients (%) 1.00
 Single unit 1 (3%) 2 (6%)
 Double unit 29 (97%) 32 (94%)
No. with malignant diagnosis at Tx (%) 28 (93%) 33 (97%) .60
EBV subgroups 6 8 .10
 Viremia 1 (3%) 6 (18%)
 PTLD 5 (17%) 2 (6%)

P values for the comparison of categorical and continuous variables were performed from the Fisher’s exact test and wilcoxon singed rank test, respectively.