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- Wahlin, Anders, et al.
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Hyperferritinemia is associated with low incidence of graft versus host disease, high relapse rate, and impaired survival in patients with blood disorders receiving allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell grafts.
- 2011
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Ingår i: Medical Oncology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1357-0560 .- 1559-131X. ; 28:2, s. 552-558
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- High pre-transplantation serum ferritin levels have been reported to be associated with impaired survival post-transplantation in patients with acute myeloid leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome. We performed a retrospective study of 309 patients who underwent allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation at two transplantation centers. The aim was to determine the effect of pre-transplantation hyperferritinemia on survival, graft versus host disease, and relapse. In both univariate and multivariate analysis, elevated ferritin levels were significantly associated with shorter overall and relapse-free survival times and increased relapse rate, but lower risk of chronic graft versus host disease. Elevated ferritin levels were not associated with non-relapse mortality. We hypothesize that ferritin may exert an immunosuppressive effect, reducing graft versus host disease and graft versus leukemia effects, resulting in increased risk of relapse and impaired survival.
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