Incidence and risk factors for life-threatening bleeding after allogeneic stem cell transplant

Autor: María Consuelo del Cañizo, Fermín Sánchez-Guijo, Lourdes Vázquez, Carmen Guerrero, Jorge Labrador, Francisco Lozano, Lucía López-Corral, José Ramón González-Porras, Ignacio Alberca, Dolores Caballero, Mercedes Sánchez-Barba
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: British Journal of Haematology. 169:719-725
ISSN: 0007-1048
Popis: Summary Bleeding is a frequent complication after allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) and may affect survival. The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence and risk factors for life-threatening bleeding after HSCT by retrospective evaluation of 491 allogeneic HSCT recipients. With a median follow-up of 33 months, 126 out of 491 allogeneic HSCT recipients experienced a haemorrhagic event (25·7%) and 46 patients developed a life-threatening bleeding episode (9·4%). Pulmonary and gastrointestinal bleeding were the most common sites for life-threatening bleeding, followed by central nervous system. In multivariate analyses, the presence of severe thrombocytopenia after day +28 and the development of grade III–IV acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) or thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) retained their association with life-threatening bleeding events. The overall survival at 3 years among patients without bleeding was 67·1% for only 17·1% for patients with life-threatening bleeding (P
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