TY - JOUR AU - A Takami, AU - K Mochizuki, AU - H Asakura, AU - H Yamazaki, AU - H Okumura, AU - S Nakao, PY - 2005/09/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - High incidence of cytomegalovirus reactivation in adult recipients of an unrelated cord blood transplant JF - Haematologica JA - haematol VL - 90 IS - 9 SE - Comparative Studies DO - 10.3324/%x UR - https://haematologica.org/article/view/3670 SP - 1290-1292 AB - This retrospective analysis of cytomegalovirus (CMV)-seropositive adult transplant recipients showed that CMV antigenemia occurred after transplantation in 10/10 (100%) recipients of unrelated cord blood, 17/39 (43%) recipients of a related matched donor graft, 16/23 (79%) recipients of an unrelated matched donor graft, and 8/12 (67%) recipients of a mismatched related donor graft. These results suggest that unrelated cord blood transplantation itself may be correlated with a high incidence of CMV reactivation. ER -