May 04 2024

Novel tool helps predict risk for heart complications after bone marrow transplant

Researchers have created a novel tool that predicts a person’s risk for cardiovascular complications after bone marrow transplantation.
Investigators created the Cardiovascular Registry in Bone Marrow Transplantation (CARE-BMT), which collects information on patients who underwent transplant at University of Michigan Health or Rush University.
Analyses of data from more than 3,300 patients who underwent BMT between 2008 and 2019 showed 4.1% of patients experienced cardiovascular events within 100 days, and 13.9% developed such complications within 5 years.
Researchers used data from the

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