Interstitial pneumonitis following autologous bone marrow transplantation

  • John R. Wingard
  • , Mark B. Sostrin
  • , Huibert M. Vriesendorp
  • , E. David Meldits
  • , George W. Santos
  • , Donald J. Fuller
  • , Hayden G. Braine
  • , Andrew M. Yeacer
  • , William H. Burns
  • , Rein Saral

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Abstract

Interstitial pneumonitis (IP) occurred in 20 of 143 (14%) patients who received cytoreductive therapy followed by autologous bone marrow transplantation (BMT) as treatment for malignancy. IP occurred at a median onset time of 41 days (5 to 624 days). All but three of the episodes were fatal. Of the thirteen cases in which tissue was examined, half were idiopathic; the remainder were due to various infectious agents. The actuarial incidences of idiopathic (7%) and CMV IP (2%) in these marrow autograft recipients were lower than the incidences of idiopathic (19%) and CMV IP (17%) in comparably treated recipients of allogeneic BMT (P≤0.001 for both comparisons).

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)61-65
Number of pages5
JournalTransplantation
Volume46
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 1988

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Transplantation

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