Yukinori Nakamura, Yoshitaka Zaimoku, Hiroki Yamaguchi, Hirohito Yamazaki, Minoru Kanaya, Naoyuki Uchida, Noriko Doki, Masatoshi Sakurai, Nobuhiro Hiramoto, Shinichi Kako, Makoto Onizuka, Koichi Onodera, Yumiko Maruyama, Hiroyuki Ohigashi, Tetsuya Nishida, Satoshi Yoshihara, Ken-Ichi Matsuoka, Tetsuya Eto, Yoshinobu Kanda, Takahiro Fukuda, Yoshiko Atsuta, Yasushi Onishi
The impact of absolute neutrophil count (ANC) before allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) on the outcomes for patients with aplastic anemia (AA) remains unclear. We retrospectively evaluated the relationship between ANC before transplantation and patient outcomes, involving 883 adult Japanese patients with AA who underwent allogeneic HSCT as their first transplantation between 2008 and 2020. Patients were divided into three groups based on ANC: 0/µL (n = 116); 1-199 (n = 210); and ≥ 200 (n = 557)...
May 16, 2024: Annals of Hematology