Patient characteristics
| Characteristic* . | No. of patients (%) . | 
|---|---|
| Donor/recipient sex combination | |
| Female/Female | 23 (13) | 
| Female/Male | 28 (15) | 
| Male/Female | 64 (35) | 
| Male/Male | 66 (36) | 
| Patient diagnosis at transplantation | |
| Acute myeloid leukemia | 44 (24) | 
| Acute lymphoblastic leukemia | 25 (14) | 
| Chronic myelogenous leukemia | 27 (15) | 
| Non-Hodgkin lymphoma | 38 (21) | 
| Hodgkin disease | 4 (2) | 
| Myelodysplastic syndrome | 21 (12) | 
| Myelofibrosis | 6 (3) | 
| Multiple myeloma | 14 (8) | 
| Others | 2 (1) | 
| Advanced disease† | 139 (77) | 
| Conditioning regimen | |
| TBI-containing regimen | 114 (63) | 
| Non-TBI-containing regimen | 67 (37) | 
| GVHD prophylaxis | |
| MTX/CSP‡ | 161 (89) | 
| Other regimens | 20 (11) | 
| Patient/donor CMV serostatus1-153 | |
| Positive/Positive | 50 (28) | 
| Positive/Negative | 40 (22) | 
| Negative/Positive | 36 (20) | 
| Negative/Negative | 54 (30) | 
| Characteristic* . | No. of patients (%) . | 
|---|---|
| Donor/recipient sex combination | |
| Female/Female | 23 (13) | 
| Female/Male | 28 (15) | 
| Male/Female | 64 (35) | 
| Male/Male | 66 (36) | 
| Patient diagnosis at transplantation | |
| Acute myeloid leukemia | 44 (24) | 
| Acute lymphoblastic leukemia | 25 (14) | 
| Chronic myelogenous leukemia | 27 (15) | 
| Non-Hodgkin lymphoma | 38 (21) | 
| Hodgkin disease | 4 (2) | 
| Myelodysplastic syndrome | 21 (12) | 
| Myelofibrosis | 6 (3) | 
| Multiple myeloma | 14 (8) | 
| Others | 2 (1) | 
| Advanced disease† | 139 (77) | 
| Conditioning regimen | |
| TBI-containing regimen | 114 (63) | 
| Non-TBI-containing regimen | 67 (37) | 
| GVHD prophylaxis | |
| MTX/CSP‡ | 161 (89) | 
| Other regimens | 20 (11) | 
| Patient/donor CMV serostatus1-153 | |
| Positive/Positive | 50 (28) | 
| Positive/Negative | 40 (22) | 
| Negative/Positive | 36 (20) | 
| Negative/Negative | 54 (30) | 
TBI indicates total body irradiation; GVHD, graft-versus-host disease; MTX/CSP, methotrexate/cyclosporine; and CMV, cytomegalovirus.
Median age (range) was 43.3 years (15.7-66.4 years).
Advanced disease: chronic myelogenous leukemia in accelerated phase and blast crisis, acute leukemias beyond first complete remission, refractory anemia with excess of blasts, multiple myeloma, Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphomas beyond second complete remission or refractory, and myelofibrosis. Less advanced disease: chronic myelogenous leukemia in chronic phase, non-Hodgkin lymphomas in first/second complete remission and untreated first relapse, acute leukemia in first complete remission, refractory anemia.
MTX/CSP consisted of a short course of methotrexate and cyclosporine as previously described.21
In one case, donor serostatus is unknown for positive recipient.