A retrospective comparison of allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell versus bone marrow transplantation.

Background And Objectives: Disease evolution depends in part on the source of transplanted cells. Therefore, we compared outcomes after allogeneic bone marrow (BM) and peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) transplantation in patients who underwent transplant at Hospital das Clinicas of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Patients And Methods: We studied 364 patients who received allogeneic BM (n = 142) or PBSC transplantation (n = 222) between July 1995 and May 2005.