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Table 1 Patient and transplant characteristics

From: Single- or double-unit UCBT following RIC in adults with AL: a report from Eurocord, the ALWP and the CTIWP of the EBMT

 

sCBT (n = 172)

dCBT (n = 362)

P valuea

Median patient age, months (range)

50 (18–68)

52 (18–76)

0.17

Median follow-up, months (range)

54 (1–118)

34 (2–98)

<0.001

Year of transplantation, median (range)

2008 (2004–2014)

2010 (2005–2014)

<0.001

Recipient sex M, no. (%)

71 (41)

201 (56)

0.002

Recipient weight, median (range)

64

70

<0.001

Time from diagnosis to CBT (months), median (range)

CR1

6 (3–70)

6 (2–147)

0. 7

CR2

22 (4–95)

22 (6–209)

0.7

Disease, no. (%)

Acute myeloid leukemia

131 (76)

277 (76)

0.9

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia

41 (24)

85 (24)

 

Donor CMV seropositive, no. (%)

107 (65)

222 (64)

0.92

Status at transplantation, no. (%)

CR1

91 (53)

207 (57)

0.6

CR2

72 (42)

139 (38)

 

CR3

9 (5)

16 (4)

 

Cytogenetics, no. (%)

  

0.85

Acute myeloid leukemia

Good riskb

7 (5)

21 (8)

 

Intermediate riskc

82 (62)

172 (62)

 

High riskd

20 (15)

33 (12)

 

Not reported/failed

22 (17)

51 (18)

 

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Intermediate riske

15 (37)

31 (36)

 

High riskf

18 (44)

38 (45)

 

Not reported/failed

8 (19)

16 (19)

 

Conditioning regimen, no. (%)

  

<0.001

TCF

113 (66)

300 (83)

 

TBF

19 (11)

5 (1)

 

TTBF

9 (5)

0

 

FM+/−C

3 (2)

12 (3)

 

CF+/−T

9 (5)

5 (1)

 

Other

19 (11)

38 (10)

 

Missing

0

2 (0.5)

 

Recipient CMV-seronegative, no. (%)

57 (35)

123 (36)

0.9

ATG, no. (%)

61 (37)

51 (16)

<0.001

Postgrafting immunosuppression, no. (%)

CNI + MMF

121 (70)

327 (90)

<0.001

CNI + Pred

21 (12)

4 (1)

 

CNI + Mtx

10 (6)

9 (2)

 

CNI alone

10 (6)

11 (3)

 

Other

10 (6)

11 (3)

 
  1. M male; CR complete remission; no. number of patients; ATG anti-thymocyte globulins; TNC total nucleated cells; TCF total body irradiation (TBI), cyclophosphamide and fludarabine; TBF Thiotepa, busulfan, and fludarabine; TTBF TBI, Thiotepa, busulfan, and fludarabine; FM+/-C fludarbine, melphalan with or without cyclophosphamide; CF+/-T cyclophosphamide, fludarabine with or without thiothepa; CNI calcineurin inhibitor (cyclosporine A or tacrolimus); MMF mycophenolate mofetil; MTX methotrexate; Pred predisolone
  2. aCalculated with χ2 statistics for categorical variables and Mann-Whitney test for continuous variables
  3. bDefined as t(8;21), t(15;17), inv or del (16), or acute promyelocyticleukemia, these abnormalities only or combined with others
  4. cDefined as all cytogenetics not belonging to the good or high risk (including trisomias)
  5. dDefined as 11q23 abnormalities, complex caryotype, and abnormalities of chromosomes 5 and 7
  6. eDefined as t(9;22), t(4;11), t(8;14), t(14;18), low hypodiploidy (30–39 chromosomes)/near triploidy (60–78 chromosomes), and complex karyotype
  7. fAll others