F Farowski, V Bücker, J J Vehreschild, L Biehl, R Cruz-Aguilar, C Scheid, U Holtick, N Jazmati, H Wisplinghoff, O A Cornely, M J G T Vehreschild
Recent data link the incidence of intestinal GvHD (iGvHD) after allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (aSCT) to exposure with piperacillin-tazobactam or imipenem-cilastatin. To assess relevance of timing, duration, sequence and combination of antibiotic treatment in this setting, we applied a time-dependent model to our aSCT cohort. Patients from the prospective Cologne Cohort of Neutropenic Patients (CoCoNut) undergoing aSCT from January 2007 to April 2013 were included into a time-dependent multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression model with backward-stepwise selection...
January 2018: Bone Marrow Transplantation