Table 1.
Patients’ characteristics in the prospective and the retrospective study group
| Prospective group | Retrospective group | |
|---|---|---|
| Patients n | 18 | 17 |
| year of transplantation | 1999-2001 | 1995-1999 |
| Age at study entry median (range) |
37 years (16–49) | 40 years (22–59) |
| Sex | ||
| male | 12 | 8 |
| female | 6 | 9 |
| Diagnosis | ||
| chronic myeloid leukemia | 7 | 9 |
| acute lymphoblastic leukemia | 4 | 4 |
| acute myelogenous leukemia | 3 | 2 |
| myelodysplastic syndrome | 2 | 2 |
| chronic myelomonocytic leukemia | 1 | 0 |
| osteomyelofibrosis | 1 | 0 |
| Donor type | n = 17* | |
| related | 9 | 13 |
| unrelated | 8 | 4 |
| HLA-match | ||
| HLA-identical | 15 | 16 |
| HLA-1-mismatch | 2 | 1 |
| Stem cell source | ||
| bone marrow | 3 | 16 |
| peripheral blood | 14 | 1 |
Legend to Table 1: *One patient did not proceed to transplantation due to rapidly progressing disease at admission and was therefore only considered for the cytogenetic analysis before SCT