Table 3 Summary of overall results.

From: Mesenchymal stromal cells in management of steroid refractory acute graft vesrus host disease, systematic review and meta-analysis

Outcome

Result

95% CI

PI

P value

I2

ORR

0.61

0.54–0.67

0.34–0.85

 

78.5%

CR

0.3

0.23–0.36

0.08–0.56

 

77.7%

OS

0.35

0.29–0.4

0.17–0.54

 

65.5%

OS in CTs

1.15

0.77–1.77

0.24–5.59

0.4

69.7%

RR

0.10

0.06–0.15

0.00–0.28

 

73.9%

RR in CTs (risk ratio)

0.62

0.31–1.25

0.11–3.53

0.18

34.1%

Skin-ORR

0.73

0.6–0.84

  

70.5%

Gut-ORR

0.62

0.54–0.7

59.8%

Liver-ORR

0.55

0.37–0.73

71.2%

Heterogeniety Assessment

Conditioning intensity on ORR

MAC

nMAC

0.59

0.56

0.43–0.74

0.51–0.6.

 

0.7

80%

0%

GVHD severity on ORR

Not-advanced

Advanced

0.66

0.51

0.57–0.75

0.44–0.57

 

0.006

79%

7%

Age of recipients on ORR

ORR in “Young

ORR in “Old

0.64

0.5

0.54–0.74

0.41–0.59

 

0.04

81%

70%

Age of recipients on OS

Young

Old

0.41

0.25

0.31–0.50

0.14–0.37

 

0.04

81%

70%

- MSCs Cell dose on ORR

One

Two

0.59

0.57

0.46–0.7

0.52–0.61

 

0.7

86%

77%

- MSCs frequency on ORR “Frequent

Infrequent

0.64

0.47

0.56–0.72

0.34 - o.62

 

0.04

79%

77%

- MSCs frequency on OS

Frequent

Infrequent

0.4

0.22

0.35–0.45

0.17–0.28

 

< 0.0001

28%

0%

- Weekly MSCs IVI on ORR

Once

Two

0.65

0.64

0.49–0.8

0.51–0.76

 

0.9

87%

89%

- MSCs preparation

Cryo

Fresh

0.57

0.65

0.48–0.65

0.48–0.8

 

0.4

77.7%

82.6%

  1. MSCs: Mesenchymal stromal cells, CI: confidence interval, PI: prediction interval, ORR: overall response rate, OS: overall survival, IVI: intravenous infusion, RR: relapse rate, GVHD: graft versus host disease, MAC: myeloablative conditioning, nMAC: non-myeloablative conditioning, CTs: controlled trials.