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Table 3 Characteristics of patients who underwent colonoscopy on suspicion of gastrointestinal GVHD

From: Villous atrophy in the terminal ileum is a specific endoscopic finding correlated with histological evidence and poor prognosis in acute graft-versus-host disease after allo-hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Total

51

Mean age (range), years

46 (10–67)

Male/female

31/20

Disease requiring transplantation

 Acute myeloid leukaemia

15

 Myelodysplastic syndromes

10

 Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

7

 Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma

4

 T lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma

3

 B lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma

3

 Chronic myelogenous leukaemia

3

 Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

1

 Myelofibrosis

1

 Non-Hodgkin lymphoma

1

 Extra nodal NK/T-cell lymphoma

1

 Polycythaemia

1

 Severe combined immunodeficiency

1

Stem cell sources

 Bone marrow

37

 Cord blood

8

 Peripheral blood stem cell

6

Freiburg Criteria

 Grade 1

7

 Grade 2

6

 Grade 3

15

 Grade 4

23

Pathological diagnosis

 Non-GVHD

31

 GVHD

11

 GVHD concomitant with CMV

7

 GVHD concomitant with TMA

2

  1. GVHD graft-versus-host disease, CMV cytomegalovirus, TMA thrombotic microangiopathy