Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis from 16 Trials for Safety Factors in Cytokine Release Syndrome After CAR-T Therapy in Patients with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (10) ◽  
pp. 2881-2894 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Li ◽  
Zhenyu Wu ◽  
Naiqing Zhao
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yadan Liu ◽  
Bin Liang ◽  
Yan Liu ◽  
Guoqing Wei ◽  
Wenjun Wu ◽  
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Background: Chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapy is successful in improving treatment outcomes for relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia (R/R ALL). However, toxicities associated with CAR-T therapy are being increasingly identified. Pancytopenia is one of the most common complications after CAR-T therapy, and platelet transfusions are an essential part of its supportive care.Study Design and Methods: This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of platelet transfusions for R/R ALL patients at our single center and identify associated risk factors. Overall, 44 R/R ALL patients were enrolled in this study, of whom 26 received CAR-T therapy and 18 received salvage chemotherapy.Result: Patients in the CAR-T group had a higher incidence of platelet transfusion refractoriness (PTR) (15/26, 57.7%) than those in the chemotherapy group (3/18, 16.7%) (p = 0.007). For patients receiving CAR-T therapy, multivariate analysis showed that the grade of cytokine release syndrome (CRS) was the only independent risk factor associated with PTR (p = 0.007). Moreover, higher peak serum IL-6 and IFN-γ levels suggested a higher risk of PTR (p = 0.024 and 0.009, respectively). Patients with PTR received more platelet infusion doses than those without PTR (p = 0.0426). Patients with PTR had more grade 3–4 bleeding events than those without PTR (21.4 vs. 0%, p = 0.230), and the cumulative incidence of grade 3–4 bleeding event was different (p = 0.023).Conclusion: We found for the first time that PTR is associated with the CRS grade. Improved knowledge on the mechanisms of PTR after CAR-T therapy is needed to design a rational therapeutic strategy that aims to improve the efficiency of transfusions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chengxin Luan ◽  
Junjie Zhou ◽  
Haixia Wang ◽  
Xiaoyu Ma ◽  
Zhangbiao Long ◽  
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Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy has achieved remarkable clinical efficacy in treatment of many malignancies especially for B-cell hematologic malignancies. However, the application of CAR-T cells is hampered by potentially adverse events, of which cytokine release syndrome (CRS) is one of the severest and the most studied. Local cytokine-release syndrome (L-CRS) at particular parts of the body has been reported once in a while in B-cell lymphoma or other compartmental tumors. The underlying mechanism of L-CRS is not well understood and the existing reports attempting to illustrate it only involve compartmental tumors, some of which even indicated L-CRS only happens in compartmental tumors. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is systemic and our center treated a B-cell ALL patient who exhibited life threatening dyspnea, L-CRS was under suspicion and the patient was successfully rescued with treatment algorithm of CRS. The case is the firstly reported L-CRS related to systemic malignancies and we tentatively propose a model to illustrate the occurrence and development of L-CRS of systemic malignancies inspired by the case and literature, with emphasis on the new recognition of L-CRS.


Author(s):  
Jianshu Wei ◽  
Yang Liu ◽  
Chunmeng Wang ◽  
Yajing Zhang ◽  
Chuan Tong ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 93 (7) ◽  
pp. 811-817
Author(s):  
Antonina E. Shchekina ◽  
Gennadii M. Galstyan ◽  
Olga A. Gavrilina ◽  
Natalia M. Arapova ◽  
Svetlana Iu. Bronyakina ◽  
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Сytokine release syndrome is the common complication of CAR-T therapy. We report a case of patient with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia developing сytokine release syndrome with shock and multiple organ failure and requiring cytokine removal and hemodiafiltration. Remission of the disease was achieved after CAR-T therapy.


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