Risk factors and prognosis of varicella zoster virus infection following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in children with thalassemia / 中华实用儿科临床杂志
The clinical data of 446 children with thalassemiawho underwent allo-HSCT from January 2012 to December 2020 in the Department of Hematology and Oncology, Shenzhen Children′s Hospital were retrospectively collected.The clinical features of the patients with VZV infection were analyzed.The patients were divided into different groups according to whether they had VZV infection.Categorical variables between groups were compared using the chi- square tests to investigate the risk factors that were associated with the development of VZV.Survivaltime was analyzed by the Kaplan-Meier method.