Table 4 Reclassification of biopsies according to newly proposed criteria.

From: Evaluation of the lower histologic threshold for gastric graft versus host disease

 

Negative for graft-versus-host disease (n = 17)

Indeterminate for graft-versus-host disease (n = 30)

Positive for graft-versus-host disease (n = 18)

P value

Graft-versus-host disease treatment

8/16 (50%)

21 (70%)

16/17 (94%)

0.02

Response to treatment

8 (100%)

18/20 (90%)

14/16 (88%)

0.59

Graft-versus-host disease in nongastric biopsies

7 (41%)

18 (60%)

14 (78%)

0.09

Extraintestinal graft-versus-host disease

7 (41%)

11 (37%)

12 (67%)

0.11

  1. Statistically significant p-values are in bold