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Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on April 10, 2003; DOI 10.1182/blood-2003-02-0456.

Submitted February 11, 2003
Accepted March 29, 2003
Invasive fungal infections in recipients of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation after nonmyeloablative conditioning: risks and outcomes
Takahiro Fukuda, Michael Boeckh, Rachel A Carter, Brenda M Sandmaier, Michael B Maris, David G Maloney, Paul J Martin, Rainer F Storb, and Kieren A Marr*
Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
* Corresponding author; email: kmarr{at}fhcrc.org.
The incidence of invasive mould infections has increased during the 1990s among allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT) recipients given myeloablative conditioning. In this study, we determined risk factors for invasive mould infection and mould infection-related death among 163 patients given allogeneic HCT with nonmyeloablative conditioning. The cumulative incidence rates of proven or probable invasive fungal infections, invasive mould infections, invasive aspergillosis, and invasive candidiasis during the first year after allogeneic HCT with nonmyeloablative conditioning were 19%, 15%, 14%, and 5%, respectively, which were similar to those after conventional myeloablative HCT. Invasive mould infections occurred late after nonmyeloablative conditioning (median, day 107), with primary risk factors including severe acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), chronic extensive GVHD, and cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease. The 1-year survival after diagnosis of mould infections was 32%. High-dose corticosteroid therapy at diagnosis of mould infection was associated with an increased risk for mould infection-related death. Overall, non-relapse mortality was estimated at 22% (36 patients) after nonmyeloablative conditioning, of which 39% (14 patients) were mould infection related (9% of the overall mortality). More effective strategies are needed to prevent invasive mould infections, which currently account for a notable proportion of non-relapse mortality after nonmyeloablative allogeneic HCT.

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