Survival and prognostic factors of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients admitted to intensive care unit.

The article reports on research which was conducted to investigate the survival, organ failures and prognostic factors of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients who were admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) over the course of 10 years. Researchers evaluated the cases of 5,118 patients. They found that HSCT recipients admitted to the ICU between day 30 and day 100 post-HSCT had the worst prognosis, that prognosis was even worse when mechanical ventilation was used and that there was an asociation between organ failure and mortality.