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Outcome of adult umbilical cord blood transplant patients admitted to a medical intensive care unit

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Umbilical cord blood transplant (UCBT) has emerged as an alternate source of stem cells for transplantation in patients with hematologic malignancies. However, outcomes of adult UCBT patients requiring ICU admission remain unknown. In order to identify predictors of ICU transfer and mortality in UCBT patients, the course and outcome of all adult (⩾16 years old) patients who underwent UCBT between 1 January 1998 and 31 December 2003 at University Hospitals of Cleveland were analyzed. Forty-four patients underwent UCBT during the study period and 25 (57%) required ICU transfer. Use of a myeloablative preparative regimen was a significant predictor of ICU transfer (P=0.03). An infusion of higher numbers of nucleated cells was protective from ICU transfer (P=0.05). For those patients transferred to the ICU, mortality was 72%. The univariate predictors of mortality, at the time of ICU admission were a high APACHE III score (P=0.0004), use of vasopressors (P=0.03), and a low platelet count (P=0.03). We conclude that transfer of UCBT patients to an ICU may be predicted by their preparative regimen, while ICU mortality may be predicted by physiologic parameters upon admission.

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We thank Shawn Knapik and Er-Wey Teng for initial discussions and project initiation and Robert Fox for providing patient transplant data. Logistic support and patient data were provided by the Ireland Cancer Center and the Medical Records Department at the University Hospitals of Cleveland. Dr Elizabeth Kern was supported as a VA National Quality Scholar.

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  1. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, USA

    N Naeem, A Eyzaguirre & R B Hejal

  2. Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA

    J A Kern & E F O Kern

  3. Comprehensive Cancer Center of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

    J A Kern, H M Lazarus & M J Laughlin

  4. Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, USA

    H M Lazarus & M J Laughlin

  5. Ireland Cancer Center, University Hosptials of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, USA

    H M Lazarus & M J Laughlin

  6. Division of Clinical and Molecular Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, USA

    E F O Kern

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Naeem, N., Eyzaguirre, A., Kern, J. et al. Outcome of adult umbilical cord blood transplant patients admitted to a medical intensive care unit. Bone Marrow Transplant 38, 733–738 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bmt.1705502

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