Risk Factors Determining The Outcome Of Critically Ill Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Patients: Time To Step Down?

The outcome of patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT) has improved over the past decades. However, the outcome of critically ill patients undergoing HCT admitted to intensive care units (ICU) is still considered dismal. Factors that predict outcome of this patient cohort and allow a proper triage assessment before and after ICU admission are still under discussion with no existing clinical standards.