27 August 2024 : Original article
Early Post-Transplant Serum Ferritin Levels as Predictive Biomarkers for Severe Acute Graft-Versus-Host Disease in Pediatric Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation for Acute Leukemia
Zhiqi Zhang1ABCDEF, Bohan Li1ABCDEF, Lu Liu2ABCDEF, Ruolan Xiong1BCDE, Senlin Zhang3ABC, Minyuan Liu1ABC, Zihao Xia1BCE, Shuran Wang1BCE, Jie Li1CDEFG, Shaoyan Hu14ABCDEFG*DOI: 10.12659/AOT.944156
Ann Transplant 2024; 29:e944156
Table 3 Characteristics of pediatric patients with acute graft-versus-host disease according to their serum ferritin level.
Serum ferritin level | |||
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Total | >1650 ng/mL | <1650 ng/mL | |
Grade I, n | 14 | 8 | 6 |
Grade II, n | 5 | 4 | 1 |
Grade III, n | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Grade IV, n | 15 | 13 | 2 |
Skin aGVHD, n | 31 | 22 | 9 |
Intestinal aGVHD, n | 22 | 19 | 3 |
Hepatic aGVHD, n | 10 | 9 | 1 |
aGVHD – acute graft-versus-host disease. |