Stem Cell Transplantation

Nonmyeloablative conditioning lowers risk of post-SCT pulmonary complications

Published in Blood Weekly, May 13th, 2004

Nonmyeloablative conditioning reduces the risk of pulmonary complications in stem-cell transplant recipients.

According to a study from Israel, "[b]one marrow transplantation is associated with pulmonary opportunistic infections and immune-mediated pulmonary processes such as idiopathic pneumonia syndrome and bronchiolitis obliterans."

S. Nusair and colleagues at Hadassah University Hospital conducted a study "to test the hypothesis that nonmyeloablative stem cell transplantation (NST) has less adverse effects on the lungs.

"A review was undertaken of the pulmonary complications occurring in 53 patients with various hematological...

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