%0 Journal Article
%T An addition of medium-dose ATG to conditioning regimens favours the long-term survival of patients with allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
%A Bingyi Wu
%A Chaoyan Song
%A Zhigang Lu
%A Kunyuan Guo
%A Yingzhi He
%A Sanfan Tu
%A Shaojuan Pan
%A Can Sun
%A Junyong Fang
%J Stem Cell Discovery
%P 22-31
%@ 2161-6787
%D 2013
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/scd.2013.31004
%X <p align=\"justify\">
	<span style=\"font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:10pt;\">Long<span>-term survival of 116 leukemia/MDS patients received allo-SCT conditioned by a regimen with ATG-F or without ATG-F was analysed, together with the impact of ATG-F on the long-term </span>survival, GVHD and disease relapse. Seventy patients received an ATG-F containing conditioning regimen FBCA, and 46 patients received a <span>non-ATG-F FBC regimen. The FBCA regimen</span> was associated with a 5-year survival of 65.4% in the complete HLA-matched group and 39.3% in the HLA-mismatched group. The difference between the two groups was significant (P = 0.012). For the FBC conditioning regimen, the 5-year overall survival of HLA-matched patients and the HLA-mismatched patients was 34.2% and 24.2% respectively (P = 0.216). The incidence of cGVHD was 32.9% and 83.6% in the FBCA and FBC condition regimen group respectively. Only 2.9% of the cases showed extensive cGVHD in the FBCA group while it was 69.4% in the FBC group (P = 0.00). Multivariate analysis indicated that relapse was related to the disease status and HLA typing, but unrelated to the conditioning regimens whether or not ATG-F was used (HR 0.54, P = 0.109). We conclude that the addition of ATG-F to conditioning regimen favours the longterm survival of allo-SCT.</span> 
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%K Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
%K Long-Term Survival
%K Anti-Human Lymphocyte Globulin
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=26523