Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 13, Issue 12 , Pages 1515-1524 , December 2007

CD3+ Cell Dose and Disease Status Are Important Factors Determining Clinical Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Unmanipulated Haploidentical Blood and Marrow Transplantation after Conditioning Including Antithymocyte Globulin

  • Lujia Dong

      Affiliations

    • Peking University, People's Hospital
    • Dao-Pei Hospital, Beijing, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence and reprint requests: Lujia Dong, MD, Peking University, People's Hospital, No.11 Xizhimen South Street, Beijing 100044, China. Tel: 8610 68792784; Fax: 8610 68333439.
  • ,
  • Tong Wu

      Affiliations

    • Peking University, People's Hospital
    • Dao-Pei Hospital, Beijing, China
  • ,
  • Mei-Jie Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
  • ,
  • Zhi-Yong Gao

      Affiliations

    • Peking University, People's Hospital
    • Dao-Pei Hospital, Beijing, China
  • ,
  • Dao-Pei Lu

      Affiliations

    • Peking University, People's Hospital
    • Dao-Pei Hospital, Beijing, China

Received 6 June 2007 ,Accepted 9 September 2007.

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PII: S1083-8791(07)00455-7

doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2007.09.007

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 13, Issue 12 , Pages 1515-1524 , December 2007