Kwang Woo Ahn, PhD

Publications

• Association of Reduced-Intensity Conditioning Regimens With Overall Survival Among Patients With Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Undergoing Allogeneic Transplant.

  (Ghosh N, Ahmed S, Ahn KW, Khanal M, Litovich C, Aljurf M, Bacher VU, Bredeson C, Epperla N, Farhadfar N, Freytes CO, Ganguly S, Haverkos B, Inwards D, Kamble RT, Lazarus HM, Lekakis L, Murthy HS, Nishihori T, Ramakrishnan P, Rizzieri DA, Yared JA, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Sureda A, Hamadani M.) JAMA Oncol. 2020 Jun 04 PMID: 32496525 PMCID: PMC7273311 06/05/2020

• Higher Total Body Irradiation Dose Intensity in Fludarabine/TBI-Based Reduced-Intensity Conditioning Regimen Is Associated with Inferior Survival in Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Patients Undergoing Allogeneic Transplantation.

  (Hamadani M, Khanal M, Ahn KW, Litovich C, Chow VA, Eghtedar A, Karmali R, Winter A, Fenske TS, Sauter C, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Awan FT.) Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2020 Jun;26(6):1099-1105 PMID: 32165327 PMCID: PMC7255948 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85083523089 03/14/2020

• Outcomes of rituximab-BEAM versus BEAM conditioning regimen in patients with diffuse large B cell lymphoma undergoing autologous transplantation.

  (Jagadeesh D, Majhail NS, He Y, Ahn KW, Litovich C, Ahmed S, Aljurf M, Bacher U, Badawy SM, Bejanyan N, Cairo M, Cerny J, Epperla N, Farhadfar N, Freytes CO, Gale RP, Haverkos B, Hossain N, Inwards D, Kamble RT, Kenkre VP, Lazarus HM, Lazaryan A, Lekakis L, Mei M, Murthy HS, Mussetti A, Nathan S, Nishihori T, Olsson RF, Ramakrishnan Geethakumari P, Savani BN, Yared JA, Fenske TS, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Sureda A, Hamadani M.) Cancer. 2020 May 15;126(10):2279-2287 PMID: 32049359 PMCID: PMC7190439 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85079369077 02/13/2020

• Survival following allogeneic transplant in patients with myelofibrosis.

  (Gowin K, Ballen K, Ahn KW, Hu ZH, Ali H, Arcasoy MO, Devlin R, Coakley M, Gerds AT, Green M, Gupta V, Hobbs G, Jain T, Kandarpa M, Komrokji R, Kuykendall AT, Luber K, Masarova L, Michaelis LC, Patches S, Pariser AC, Rampal R, Stein B, Talpaz M, Verstovsek S, Wadleigh M, Agrawal V, Aljurf M, Angel Diaz M, Avalos BR, Bacher U, Bashey A, Beitinjaneh AM, Cerny J, Chhabra S, Copelan E, Cutler CS, DeFilipp Z, Gadalla SM, Ganguly S, Grunwald MR, Hashmi SK, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Kindwall-Keller T, Kröger N, Lazarus HM, Liesveld JL, Litzow MR, Marks DI, Nathan S, Nishihori T, Olsson RF, Pawarode A, Rowe JM, Savani BN, Savoie ML, Seo S, Solh M, Tamari R, Verdonck LF, Yared JA, Alyea E, Popat U, Sobecks R, Scott BL, Nakamura R, Mesa R, Saber W.) Blood Adv. 2020 May 12;4(9):1965-1973 PMID: 32384540 PMCID: PMC7218417 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85086108920 05/10/2020

• Pacemaker detected active minutes are superior to pedometer-based step counts in measuring the response to physical activity counseling in sedentary older adults.

  (Puppala VK, Hofeld BC, Anger A, Tyagi S, Strath SJ, Fox J, Berger MG, Ahn KW, Widlansky ME.) BMC Geriatr. 2020 May 06;20(1):162 PMID: 32375676 PMCID: PMC7201960 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85084386697 05/08/2020

• Impact of type of reduced-intensity conditioning regimen on the outcomes of allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation in classical Hodgkin lymphoma.

  (Ahmed S, Ghosh N, Ahn KW, Khanal M, Litovich C, Mussetti A, Chhabra S, Cairo M, Mei M, William B, Nathan S, Bejanyan N, Olsson RF, Dahi PB, van der Poel M, Steinberg A, Kanakry J, Cerny J, Farooq U, Seo S, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Sureda A, Fenske TS, Hamadani M.) Br J Haematol. 2020 Apr 21 PMID: 32314807 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85083643436 04/22/2020

• Incidence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes of Patients Who Develop Mucosal Barrier Injury-Laboratory Confirmed Bloodstream Infections in the First 100 Days After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant.

  (Dandoy CE, Kim S, Chen M, Ahn KW, Ardura MI, Brown V, Chhabra S, Diaz MA, Dvorak C, Farhadfar N, Flagg A, Ganguly S, Hale GA, Hashmi SK, Hematti P, Martino R, Nishihori T, Nusrat R, Olsson RF, Rotz SJ, Sung AD, Perales MA, Lindemans CA, Komanduri KV, Riches ML.) JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Jan 03;3(1):e1918668 PMID: 31913492 PMCID: PMC6991246 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85077688075 01/09/2020

• 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. 2019 12 03;9(12):97 PMID: 31796726 PMCID: PMC6890709 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85075936084 12/05/2019

• Survival outcomes of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplants with EBV-positive or EBV-negative post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder, A CIBMTR study.

  (Naik S, Riches M, Hari P, Kim S, Chen M, Bachier C, Shaughnessy P, Hill J, Ljungman P, Battiwalla M, Chhabra S, Daly A, Storek J, Ustun C, Diaz MA, Cerny J, Beitinjaneh A, Yared J, Brown V, Page K, Dahi PB, Ganguly S, Seo S, Chao N, Freytes CO, Saad A, Savani BN, Woo Ahn K, Boeckh M, Heslop HE, Lazarus HM, Auletta JJ, Kamble RT.) Transpl Infect Dis. 2019 Oct;21(5):e13145 PMID: 31301099 PMCID: PMC7239317 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85073491232 07/14/2019

• Lower Graft-versus-Host Disease and Relapse Risk in Post-Transplant Cyclophosphamide-Based Haploidentical versus Matched Sibling Donor Reduced-Intensity Conditioning Transplant for Hodgkin Lymphoma.

  (Ahmed S, Kanakry JA, Ahn KW, Litovich C, Abdel-Azim H, Aljurf M, Bacher VU, Bejanyan N, Cohen JB, Farooq U, Fuchs EJ, Bolaños-Meade J, Ghosh N, Herrera AF, Hossain NM, Inwards D, Kanate AS, Martino R, Munshi PN, Murthy H, Mussetti A, Nieto Y, Perales MA, Romee R, Savani BN, Seo S, Wirk B, Yared JA, Sureda A, Fenske TS, Hamadani M.) Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2019 09;25(9):1859-1868 PMID: 31132455 PMCID: PMC6755039 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85067280149 05/28/2019

• Prognostic Score and Cytogenetic Risk Classification for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Patients: Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research Report.

  (Kim HT, Ahn KW, Hu ZH, Davids MS, Volpe VO, Antin JH, Sorror ML, Shadman M, Press O, Pidala J, Hogan W, Negrin R, Devine S, Uberti J, Agura E, Nash R, Mehta J, McGuirk J, Forman S, Langston A, Giralt SA, Perales MA, Battiwalla M, Hale GA, Gale RP, Marks DI, Hamadani M, Ganguly S, Bacher U, Lazarus H, Reshef R, Hildebrandt GC, Inamoto Y, Cahn JY, Solh M, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Ghosh N, Saad A, Aljurf M, Schouten HC, Hill BT, Pawarode A, Kindwall-Keller T, Saba N, Copelan EA, Nathan S, Beitinjaneh A, Savani BN, Cerny J, Grunwald MR, Yared J, Wirk BM, Nishihori T, Chhabra S, Olsson RF, Bashey A, Gergis U, Popat U, Sobecks R, Alyea E, Saber W, Brown JR.) Clin Cancer Res. 2019 08 15;25(16):5143-5155 PMID: 31253630 PMCID: PMC6697588 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85070674030 06/30/2019

• Survival Trends in Infants Undergoing Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant.

  (Parikh SH, Satwani P, Ahn KW, Sahr NA, Fretham C, Abraham AA, Agrawal V, Auletta JJ, Abdel-Azim H, Copelan E, Diaz MA, Dvorak CC, Frangoul HA, Freytes CO, Gadalla SM, Gale RP, George B, Gergis U, Hashmi S, Hematti P, Hildebrandt GC, Keating AK, Lazarus HM, Myers KC, Olsson RF, Prestidge T, Rotz SJ, Savani BN, Shereck EB, Williams KM, Wirk B, Pasquini MC, Loren AW.) JAMA Pediatr. 2019 05 01;173(5):e190081 PMID: 30882883 PMCID: PMC6503511 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85062953980 03/19/2019