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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2015 Mar 31;21(8):1425–1430. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2015.03.022

TABLE 3.

Cause of Death

Cause of Death Patients in CR,
number (%)
Patients in CRp,
number (%)
Patients in MLFS,
number (%)
P value
Acute GVHD 13 (12) 0 (0) 3 (24) 0.012
Chronic GVHD 6 (5) 3 (12) 0 (0)
Infection or sepsis 17 (15) 3 (12) 2 (15)
Relapse or
progression of
disease
59 (53) 17 (65) 2 (15)
Graft failure 1 (1) 1 (4) 0 (0)
Other1 15 (14) 2 (7) 6 (46)
Total 111 26 13
1

Other includes multiple organ failure, sinusoidal obstruction syndrome, cardiac arrest, intracranial hemorrhage, and unknown.