The 100-day mortality was 9.6% (3 of 31 transplants); Two patients died at day +9 and +11 as a result of sepsis during granulocytopenia and one died at day +100 due to a myocardial infarction; they had received 2.5, 1.5 and 3.4 x 106 CD34 +ve viable cells / Kg, respectively. This evidence concerns the gene CD34 and Sepsis.