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Volume 16, Issue 9 , Pages 1231-1236 , September 2010

Corticosteroid Dose as a Risk Factor for Avascular Necrosis of the Bone after Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation

Sarah McAvoy
- Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
K. Scott Baker
- Survivorship Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
Daniel Mulrooney
- Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Anne Blaes
- Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mukta Arora
- Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Linda J. Burns
- Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Navneet S. Majhail
- Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Correspondence and reprint requests to: Navneet Majhail, MD, MS, Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street SE, MMC 480, Minneapolis, MN 55455.

Received 4 January 2010 ,Accepted 7 March 2010.

Corticosteroid exposure of cases and controls by transplant type. The height of the columns represents proportion of patients within each category. Corticosteroid exposure is presented as cumulative d

Corticosteroid exposure of cases and controls by transplant type. The height of the columns represents proportion of patients within each category. Corticosteroid exposure is presented as cumulative dose of prednisone.
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