title: Outcome of Chinese children with unrelated donor hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  To evaluate the prognostic factors and outcomes in Chinese children undergoing unrelated donor hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (UDT).
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective analysis of clinical data from 53 consecutive children who received UDT from November 2002 to December 2007 in our center.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The median recipient age was 8.4 years (range 1.5-21). With a median follow-up of 36 months (range 18-80), the probability of 3-year overall survival (OS) was 71.5%. Treatment-related mortality (TRM) was 19.0%, and 9.5% died after post-transplant leukemia relapse. Incidence of grades I-II, III-IV acute and chronic graft versus host disease (GVHD) was 63%, 29%, and 46%. There was significant difference in OS between patients older or younger than 10 years (50.0% vs. 84.8%, P = 0.003), patients with different underlying diseases (ALL, AML, CML, and non-malignant disease: 36.4%, 80.0%, 61.5%, and 100%, P = 0.001) and patients receiving either HLA 0-1 versus 2-3 loci high-resolution mismatched UDT (83.3% vs. 53.3%, P = 0.034). The OS was not affected by the stem cell source (peripheral stem cell 70.3%, bone marrow 87.5% vs. cord blood 62.5%, P = 0.542) or the severity of acute GVHD (grade 0-II 77.8% vs. grade III-IV 60.0%, P = 0.140).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The important prognostic factors for OS after UDT were the degree of HLA match, the age of patient and the type of underlying disease. Patients < 10-year with non-malignant disease receiving 0-1 locus high-resolution mismatched UDT had the most favorable outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hematology/Oncology, Shanghai Children's Medical Center, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. chenjingscmc@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Ziyi
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Cheng-Juan
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Chang-Ying
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Jing-Yan
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Yao-Ping
authors.initials: YP
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Long-Jun
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Gu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D006086:Graft vs Host Disease / Q000517:prevention & control; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000401:mortality; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D015996:Survival Rate; D014019:Tissue Donors; D019172:Transplantation Conditioning; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult