title: The impact of bone marrow fibrosis on the outcome of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
abstract: We retrospectively analyzed the data of 175 patients who underwent autologous (n = 69) or allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT) (n = 106) including 19 (27.5%) and 38 (35.8%) recipients who had bone marrow fibrosis (BMF) prior to transplantation, respectively. We investigated the effects of BMF on engraftment, graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), early posttransplant complications, and survival. Pretransplantation BMF did not delay engraftment and showed no impact either on early posttransplant complications or on the development of acute and/or chronic GVHD. Probability of 1-year overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) of autologous HCT recipients were similar, namely 76.7% versus 88.6% (P > .005) and 26.33% versus 16.5% (P > .05) among patients with versus without fibrosis, respectively. In allogeneic HCT recipients, the probability of 1-year OS was 35.2% among patients with versus 48.9% among those without fibrosis (P = .004) PFS at 1 year was inferior among allogeneic HCT recipients with BMF: 27.8% versus 51.2% (P = .0008). Cox regression analysis revealed BMF to be independently associated with age, Sorror comorbidity index, primary disease, and disease status during HCT (P = .045).
authors.affiliation: Department of Hematology, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Suyanı
authors.forename: S Z
authors.initials: SZ
authors.lastname: Akı
authors.forename: Z A
authors.initials: ZA
authors.lastname: Yegin
authors.forename: Z N
authors.initials: ZN
authors.lastname: Ozkurt
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Altındal
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Akyürek
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yaǧcı
authors.forename: G T
authors.initials: GT
authors.lastname: Sucak
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006086:Graft vs Host Disease / Q000453:epidemiology; D006680:HLA Antigens / Q000276:immunology; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D055728:Primary Myelofibrosis / Q000601:surgery*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D019172:Transplantation Conditioning / Q000379:methods; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D006680:HLA Antigens