Bronchiolitis obliterans with allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation: a 10-year experience of the Okayama BMT Group

Bronchiolitis obliterans (BO) is a devastating complication of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). We retrospectively studied 465 patients who underwent HSCT in the Okayama BMT Group between 2000 and 2009, and describe the detailed clinical features of 13 patients with BO. The 5-year cumulative incidence of BO was 3.43 %. The median time from transplantation to onset of BO was 15 months. In seven of the 13 patients, the...