Kwang Woo Ahn, PhD

Publications

• Effect of time to relapse on overall survival in patients with mantle cell lymphoma following autologous haematopoietic cell transplantation.

  (Riedell PA, Hamadani M, Ahn KW, Litovich C, Brunstein CG, Cashen AF, Cohen JB, Epperla N, Hill BT, Im A, Inwards DJ, Lister J, McCarty JM, Ravi Kiran Pingali S, Shadman M, Shaughnessy P, Solh M, Stiff PJ, Vose JM, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Herrera AF, Sauter CS, Smith SM.) Br J Haematol. 2021 12;195(5):757-763 PMID: 34581433 PMCID: PMC8627449 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85115835960 09/29/2021

• Outcomes and Utilization Trends of Front-Line Autologous Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Mantle Cell Lymphoma.

  (Riedell PA, Hamadani M, Ahn KW, Litovich C, Murthy GSG, Locke FL, Brunstein CG, Merryman RW, Stiff PJ, Pawarode A, Nishihori T, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Herrera AF, Sauter CS, Smith SM.) Transplant Cell Ther. 2021 Nov;27(11):911.e1-911.e7 PMID: 34450333 PMCID: PMC8556305 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85116436482 08/28/2021

• Fludarabine and Melphalan Compared with Reduced Doses of Busulfan and Fludarabine Improve Transplantation Outcomes in Older Patients with Myelodysplastic Syndromes.

  (Oran B, Ahn KW, Fretham C, Beitinjaneh A, Bashey A, Pawarode A, Wirk B, Scott BL, Savani BN, Bredeson C, Weisdorf D, Marks DI, Rizzieri D, Copelan E, Hildebrandt GC, Hale GA, Murthy HS, Lazarus HM, Cerny J, Liesveld JL, Yared JA, Yves-Cahn J, Szer J, Verdonck LF, Aljurf M, van der Poel M, Litzow M, Kalaycio M, Grunwald MR, Diaz MA, Sabloff M, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Majhail NS, Farhadfar N, Reshef R, Olsson RF, Gale RP, Nakamura R, Seo S, Chhabra S, Hashmi S, Farhan S, Ganguly S, Nathan S, Nishihori T, Jain T, Agrawal V, Bacher U, Popat U, Saber W.) Transplant Cell Ther. 2021 Nov;27(11):921.e1-921.e10 PMID: 34403791 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85121157621 08/18/2021

• Autologous and allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma-type Richter syndrome.

  (Herrera AF, Ahn KW, Litovich C, Chen Y, Assal A, Bashir Q, Bayer RL, Coleman M, DeFilipp Z, Farhadfar N, Greenwood M, Hahn T, Horwitz M, Jacobson C, Jaglowski S, Lachance S, Langston A, Mattar B, Maziarz RT, McGuirk J, Mian MAH, Nathan S, Phillips A, Rakszawski K, Sengeloev H, Shenoy S, Stuart R, Sauter CS, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Hamadani M.) Blood Adv. 2021 09 28;5(18):3528-3539 PMID: 34496026 09/09/2021

• Autologous Transplant versus Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell Therapy for Relapsed DLBCL in Partial Remission.

  (Shadman M, Pasquini MC, Ahn KW, Chen Y, Turtle CJ, Hematti P, Cohen JB, Khimani F, Ganguly S, Merryman RW, Yared JA, Locke FL, Ahmed N, Munshi P, Beitinjaneh A, Reagan P, Herrera AF, Sauter CS, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Hamadani M.) Blood. 2021 Sep 27 PMID: 34570879 09/28/2021

• Incidence rate of severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) among nurses in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) units versus non-COVID-19-units at a large academic medical center.

  (Rivera F, Huerta S, Ahn KW, Munoz-Price LS.) Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2021 Aug 02:1-2 PMID: 34338169 PMCID: PMC8367872 08/03/2021

• Outcomes Associated With Thiotepa-Based Conditioning in Patients With Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma After Autologous Hematopoietic Cell Transplant.

  (Scordo M, Wang TP, Ahn KW, Chen Y, Ahmed S, Awan FT, Beitinjaneh A, Chen A, Chow VA, Dholaria B, Epperla N, Farooq U, Ghosh N, Grover N, Hamad N, Hildebrandt GC, Holmberg L, Hong S, Inwards DJ, Jimenez-Jimenez A, Karmali R, Kenkre VP, Khimani F, Klyuchnikov E, Krem MM, Munshi PN, Nieto Y, Prestidge T, Ramakrishnan Geethakumari P, Rezvani AR, Riedell PA, Seo S, Shah NN, Solh M, Yared JA, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Herrera A, Hamadani M, Sauter CS.) JAMA Oncol. 2021 Jul 01;7(7):993-1003 PMID: 33956047 PMCID: PMC8283558 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85105866863 05/07/2021

• COVID-19 and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Center-Specific Survival Analysis: Can We Adjust for the Impact of the Pandemic? Recommendations of the COVID-19 Task Force of the 2020 Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplantation Research Center Outcomes Forum.

  (Wingard JR, Ahn KW, Dandoy C, Perales MA, Wood WA, Logan B, Riches M, Rizzo JD.) Transplant Cell Ther. 2021 07;27(7):533-539 PMID: 33895401 PMCID: PMC8061634 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85107113196 04/26/2021

• Predicting asymptomatic severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection rates of inpatients: A time-series analysis.

  (Rivera F, Ahn KW, Munoz-Price LS.) Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2021 Jun 24:1-4 PMID: 34162451 PMCID: PMC8280390 06/25/2021

• Optimal treatment regimes for competing risk data using doubly robust outcome weighted learning with bi-level variable selection.

  (He Y, Kim S, Kim MO, Saber W, Ahn KW.) Comput Stat Data Anal. 2021 Jun;158 PMID: 33994608 PMCID: PMC8117077 05/18/2021

• Correction: Allogeneic transplantation in elderly patients ≥65 years with non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a time-trend analysis.

  (Shah NN, Ahn KW, Litovich C, Sureda A, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Awan FT, Ganguly S, Gergis U, Inwards D, Karmali R, Lazaryan A, Lekakis L, Munshi P, Nathan S, Saad AA, Solh M, Steinberg A, Vij R, Wood WA, Fenske TS, Smith S, Hamadani M.) Blood Cancer J. 2021 Apr 29;11(4):82 PMID: 33927193 PMCID: PMC8085088 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85105142269 05/01/2021

• Lactobacillus plantarum 299v probiotic supplementation in men with stable coronary artery disease suppresses systemic inflammation.

  (Hofeld BC, Puppala VK, Tyagi S, Ahn KW, Anger A, Jia S, Salzman NH, Hessner MJ, Widlansky ME.) Sci Rep. 2021 02 17;11(1):3972 PMID: 33597583 PMCID: PMC7889883 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85101105180 02/19/2021