ArticleBone marrow transplantation2021
Post-transplant multimorbidity index and quality of life in patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease-results from a joint evaluation of a prospective German multicenter validation trial and a cohort from the National Institutes of Health.
Article in Bone marrow transplantation, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Cell Therapy Transplant Canada (CTTC) Consensus-Based Guideline 2024 for Management and Treatment of Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease and Future Directions for Development.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2024Guideline
- Comorbid conditions after allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation in young adults in Germany-A prospective, multicentre trial.British journal of haematology · 2026Trial
- Communication barriers in aftercare: a qualitative study of allogeneic stem cell transplant patients.BMC cancer · 2026Article
- Symptoms of depression and anxiety in patients with transfusion-dependent thalassemia after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a single-center study.Therapeutic advances in hematology · 2025Article
- A Vignette Study to Derive Health-Related Quality-of-Life Weights for Individuals with Steroid Refractory Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease Receiving Third-Line Therapy in the United Kingdom.Journal of health economics and outcomes research · 2025Article
- Increased risk of hip and major osteoporotic fractures in 8463 patients who have undergone stem cell transplantation, a Swedish population-based study.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2024Article
- Patient-reported physical well-being predicts good long-term survival of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.Cancer medicine · 2024Article
- Psychological and physical function in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant survivors with chronic graft-versus-host disease.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2023Article
- Ikaros expression is associated with an increased risk of chronic graft-versus-host disease.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Psychosocial aspects of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.World journal of transplantation · 2021Review
- The delicate balance of graft versus leukemia and graft versus host disease after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.Expert review of hematologyReview
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12 authors at 8 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Comorbidity after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloHSCT) impairs quality of life (QoL), physical functioning, and survival. We developed a new standardized measure to capture comorbidity after transplantation, the Post-transplant Multimorbidity Index (PTMI) in a cohort of 50 long term survivors. We subsequently evaluated the content validity and impact on survival and QoL within a multicenter trial, including 208 patients (pts) after alloHSCT, who were prospectively evaluated applying the FACT-BMT, the Human Activity Profile (HAP), the SF-36 v.2, PTMI and the Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation-Comorbidity Index (HCT-CI). The most prevalent comorbidities were compensated arterial hypertension (28.4%), ambulatory infections (25.5%), iron overload (23%), mild renal function impairment (20%), and osteoporosis (13%). Applying the PTMI 13% of patients had no comorbidity, while 37.1% had 1-3 comorbidities, 27.4% had 4-6 comorbidities, and 13.5% had > 6 comorbidities. Chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGvHD) was significantly associated with the PTMI, while age and prior acute GvHD were not. In contrast, the HCT-CI was not associated with the presence of cGvHD. cGvHD was significantly associated with depression (r = 0.16), neurological disease (r = 0.21), osteoporosis (r = 0.18) and nonmelanoma skin cancer (r = 0.26). The PTMI demonstrated strong measurement properties and compared to the HCT-CI captured a wider range of comorbidities associated with cGvHD.
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