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. 2022 Oct 12;36(12):2875–2882. doi: 10.1038/s41375-022-01718-7

Table 2.

Re-stratification matrix of the number of MDS patients classified in each of the WHO 2016 classification (column) and each of the WHO 2022 classification (row).

WHO-2016, n MDS-5q MDS-RS-SLD MDS-RS-MLD MDS-SLD MDS-MLD MDS-EB1 MDS-EB2 MDS-U Number of patients, n (%)
WHO-2022, n
MDS-5q 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11(1.3)
MDS-SF3B1 0 21 24 3 21 0 0 1 70 (8.6)
MDS-biTP53 1 1 0 1 14 10 24 2 53 (6.5)
MDS-LB 0 0 0 34 254 0 0 5 293 (36)
MDS-h 0 0 0 11 67 0 0 2 80 (9.8)
MDS-IB1 0 0 0 0 0 161 0 0 161 (19.8)
MDS-IB2 0 0 0 0 0 0 103 0 103 (12.7)
MDS-f 0 0 0 0 0 20 22 0 42 (5.2)
Number of patients, n (%) 12 (1.5) 22 (2.7) 24 (3.0) 49 (6) 356 (43.8) 191 (23.5) 149 (18.3) 10 (1.2) 813

WHO World Health Organization, MDS myelodysplastic syndromes(neoplasms), MDS-U MDS unclassifiable, SLD single lineage dysplasia, MLD multilineage dysplasia, RS-SLD ring sideroblasts with SLD, RS-MLD ring sideroblasts with MLD, EB1/2 excess blasts type 1/2, 5q- isolated 5q deletion, biTP53 biallelic TP53 inactivation, LB low blasts, MDS-SF3B1 MDS with low blasts and SF3B1 mutation, MDS-h MDS hypoplastic, IB1/2: increased blasts type1/2, MDS-f MDS with fibrosis.