¿Is COVID-19 a disease that affects the bone marrow? Experience in healthy donors of hematopoietic cells in a transplant center
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Objective: to write and analyze the effect of SARS-CoV-2 virus infection on cell mobilization in hematopoietic stem cell donors who attended the hematopoietic stem cell transplant unit of a highly complex medical institution in Medellín, Colombia. Methods: an analytical retrospective cross-sectional study based on medical records of patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation between March 2020 and March 2021. Results: of 64 hematopoietic cell donors and recipients, 22.2 % of recipients with a positive history of donor infection had granulocyte engraftment failure compared with 9.1 % of recipients without this history; there was no difference in mortality rate. The median number of CD34 cells mobilized in the donor population with a history of infection was 5 437 965 [IQR 5 070 714 – 7 215 985], similar to donors without a history (Median of 5 976 773 [IQR 5 046 689 – 7 276 463]) without finding differences (p=0.28). Conclusions: It is not possible to determine that SARS-CoV-2 infection generates changes in cells that are mobilized from an otherwise healthy hematopoietic stem cell donor; based on the performed statistical analysis, we do not believe that the data will change if the study population is expanded, although more prospective studies are required in the future.
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