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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 5.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Haematol. 2016 Mar 7;173(3):444–455. doi: 10.1111/bjh.13977

Table II.

Acute and chronic GVHD.

Variable All patients
Cumulative incidence (95% CI)
Conventional GVHD prophylaxis (n = 65)` PTCy (n = 40) HR; 95% CI P-value
Acute GVHD, day +30
 Grade II–IV 15% (9–27%) 0% NE 0.01
 Grade III–IV   8% (3–18%) 0% NE 0.08
Acute GVHD, day +100
 Grade II–IV 36% (26–50) 37% (25–56)   0.9 (0.5–1.8) 0.8
 Grade III–IV 12% (6–23) 17% (9–34)   1.4 (0.5–3.9) 0.5
Chronic GVHD
 6 months 15% (8–31) 20% (9–44)      1 (0.6–1.7) 0.9
 1 year 31% (19–50) 30% (16–57) 0.95 (0.6–1.5) 0.8
 2 years 42% (27–68) 30% (16–57)   0.9 (0.5–1.4) 0.6
Variable Bone marrow grafts only
7/8-HLA matched patients (n = 84)
PTCy (n = 34) vs. Conventional GVHD prophylaxis (n = 45)
PTCy (n = 38) vs. Conventional GVHD prophylaxis (n = 46)*
HR; 95% CI P-value HR; 95% CI P-value
Acute GVHD, day +30
 Grade II–IV NE 0.03 NE 0.005
 Grade III–IV NE 0.2
Acute GVHD, day +100
 Grade II–IV 0.9 (0.4–1.8) 0.8   1 (0.5–2.1) 0.9
 Grade III–IV 1.9 (0.5–6.7) 0.3 1.1 (0.3–3.3) 0.9
Chronic GVHD
 6 months 1.2 (0.3–4.6) 0.8 0.8 (0.2–2.9) 0.7
 1 year 0.8 (0.3–2.6) 0.8 0.8 (0.3–2.2) 0.6
 2 years 0.6 (0.2–1.9) 0.4 0.7 (0.2–1.9) 0.5

CI, Confidence Interval; HR, Hazard Ratio; GVHD, graft-versus-host disease; PTCy, Post-transplant cyclophosphamide; HLA, Human Leucocyte Antigen; NE, not evaluable.

*

Acute GVHD data missing for one engrafted patient in the conventional GVHD prophylaxis group.