Soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 levels of patients with acute myeloid leukemia after allogeneic bone marrow

Y Maeda1, J Chihara, Y Sumimoto

  • 1Third Department of Internal Medicine, Kinki University School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.

Concentrations of serum-soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) were measured for 10 patients with or without chronic graft versus host disease after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Levels of soluble ICAM-1 were higher among patients with chronic graft versus host disease than among those without it, a statistically significant difference. The results indicated that measurement of serum-soluble ICAM-1 is useful for prediction of chronic graft versus host disease.