Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 15, Issue 11 , Pages 1400-1406 , November 2009

Minor ABO-Mismatches are Risk Factors for Acute Graft-versus-Host Disease in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Patients

  • Katarina Ludajic

      Affiliations

    • Division of Blood Group Serology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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  • Yesilda Balavarca

      Affiliations

    • Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, University of Goettingen, Germany
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  • Heike Bickeböller

      Affiliations

    • Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center, University of Goettingen, Germany
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  • Agathe Rosenmayr

      Affiliations

    • Division of Blood Group Serology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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  • Gottfried F. Fischer

      Affiliations

    • Division of Blood Group Serology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence and reprint requests: Gottfried F. Fischer, MD, Klinische Abteilung für Blutgruppenserologie, Medizinische Universitaet Wien, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
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  • Ingrid Faé

      Affiliations

    • Division of Blood Group Serology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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  • Peter Kalhs

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine I, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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  • David Pohlreich

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine I, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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  • Michal Kouba

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine I, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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  • Marie Dobrovolna

      Affiliations

    • National Reference Laboratory for DNA Diagnostics, Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague, Czech Republic
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  • Hildegard T. Greinix

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine I, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

Received 12 December 2008 ,Accepted 6 July 2009.

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    Cumulative incidence of aGvHD (grades II-IV) (A) and aGvHD (grades III-IV) (B) according to the ABO matching status; p denotes probability.

    Cumulative incidence of aGvHD (grades II-IV) (A) and aGvHD (grades III-IV) (B) according to the ABO matching status; p denotes probability.

 Financial disclosure: See Acknowledgments on page 1405.

PII: S1083-8791(09)00322-X

doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2009.07.002

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 15, Issue 11 , Pages 1400-1406 , November 2009

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