ArticleBone marrow transplantation2018
Pentostatin therapy for steroid-refractory acute graft versus host disease: identifying those who may benefit.
Article in Bone marrow transplantation, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Clinical Development Programme of the Innovative Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Product MSC-FFM/MC0518 for Steroid-Refractory Acute Graft-Versus-Host Disease: Design of 2 Randomised Controlled Trials in Adult and Paediatric Patients.Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie · 2026Article
- Graft-Versus-Host Disease Mouse Models: A Clinical-Translational Perspective.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025Review
- Modern-Era Challenges in the Clinical Management of Graft-Versus-Host Disease.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025Review
- Understanding and treatment of cutaneous graft-versus-host-disease.Bone marrow transplantation · 2023Review
- Treatment of steroid-refractory graft versus host disease in children.Frontiers in transplantation · 2023Review
- Experimental Pharmaceuticals for Steroid-Refractory Acute Graft-versus-Host Disease.Journal of experimental pharmacology · 2020Review
- Outcomes and Predictors of Response in Steroid-Refractory Acute Graft-versus-Host Disease.Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
18 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
We report outcomes of 60 patients with steroid-refractory (SR)-aGVHD treated with pentostatin. Almost half (47%) of patients had grade 4 GVHD-22% had stage 3-4 liver GVHD and 51% had stage 3-4 lower gastrointestinal tract (LGI) GVHD. Patients received a median of 3 courses (range, 1-9) of pentostatin. Day 28 overall response rate (ORR) was 33% (n = 20) (complete response 18% (n = 11), partial response 15% (n = 9)). Non-relapse mortality was 72% (95% confidence interval (CI) 61-84%) and overall survival (OS) was 21% (95% CI 12-32%) at 18 months. On univariate analysis, age >60 years (HR 1.9, 95% CI 1.01-3.7, p = 0.045) and presence of liver GVHD (HR 1.9, 95% CI 1.9, 95% CI 1.5-3.3, p = 0.03) were significant predictors of poor OS while patients with LGI GVHD had superior OS than those without (HR 0.4, 95% CI 0.2-0.8, p = 0.01). On stratified analysis, patients <60 years with isolated LGI GVHD had the best outcomes with an ORR of 48% and OS of 42% at 18 months. Among older patients, OS was 14% in those with isolated LGI aGVHD and 0% in others. Pentostatin remains a viable treatment option for SR-aGVHD, especially in patients 60 years or younger with isolated LGI involvement.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.