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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-6-20
pubmed:abstractText
Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (SCT) may cure patients with hematologic malignancies, but it carries significant risks. Careful donor selection is an important component of the clinical transplantation decision-making process and includes evaluation of HLA typing and other criteria, the most controversial of which is parity. We examined the effect of donor sex and parity on outcomes of HLA-identical sibling SCT. Because the effect of recipient sex/parity has never been explicitly evaluated, we also analyzed the effect of recipient sex/parity on outcomes of transplantation. We found that (1) parous female donors result in an increased risk of chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in all recipients, (2) the magnitude of this increased risk is similar in male and female recipients, and (3) nulliparous female donors increase the risk of chronic GVHD in male recipients to a degree comparable to that from parous donors. A decrease in the risk of relapse was not observed, and there was no effect on overall survival, acute GVHD, or transplant-related mortality. Recipient parity had no independent effect on any endpoint. Until the effects of pregnancy on the maternal immune system are better understood, it is appropriate whenever possible to avoid parous female donors and to choose male donors for male recipients in HLA-identical related donor SCT.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
1083-8791
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
12
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
758-69
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16785065-Acute Disease, pubmed-meshheading:16785065-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:16785065-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:16785065-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:16785065-Analysis of Variance, pubmed-meshheading:16785065-Chronic Disease, pubmed-meshheading:16785065-Directed Tissue Donation, pubmed-meshheading:16785065-Female, pubmed-meshheading:16785065-Graft vs Host Disease, pubmed-meshheading:16785065-Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:16785065-Histocompatibility Testing, pubmed-meshheading:16785065-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:16785065-Male, pubmed-meshheading:16785065-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:16785065-Parity, pubmed-meshheading:16785065-Pregnancy, pubmed-meshheading:16785065-Retrospective Studies, pubmed-meshheading:16785065-Risk Assessment, pubmed-meshheading:16785065-Sex Factors, pubmed-meshheading:16785065-Survival Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:16785065-Treatment Outcome
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Impact of donor and recipient sex and parity on outcomes of HLA-identical sibling allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
pubmed:affiliation
Stem Cell Transplant Program, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. awakoff@mail.upenn.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural