Comment on “Risk factors associated with chronic cutaneous graft-versus-host disease following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a pediatric cohort” – Reply☆
Daniela Carvajal, Teresa Dossi, Camila Downey, Daniela Krämer, Natalia González, Javier Fernández, Paula Muñoz · 2026
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Daniela Carvajal and co-authors reply to comments on their study of chronic skin graft-versus-host disease in children after stem cell transplants, in a 2026 letter. Critics had questioned two linked variables in their model: graft source and donor type. The authors explain that in Chile during 2007 to 2017, unrelated donors were scarce before international registries arrived. Cord blood became the default unrelated source, tangling the two variables by design.
Their protocol also prefers bone marrow over blood stem cells in children to lower graft-versus-host risk. Graft source stayed in the final model because it mirrors the actual cell dose a child receives. The reply adds statistics backing the original findings.
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| CREATOR | Daniela Carvajal, Teresa Dossi, Camila Downey, Daniela Krämer, Natalia González, Javier Fernández, Paula Muñoz |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 7 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |