Hepatic iron overload (HIO) is strongly correlated with serum ferritin levels and inferior survival in patients that underwent allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloHSCT)

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. S3-S4
Author(s):  
Serdar Sivgin ◽  
Suleyman Baldane ◽  
Kemal Deniz ◽  
Gokmen Zararsiz ◽  
Leylagul Kaynar ◽  
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Blood ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 126 (23) ◽  
pp. 5520-5520
Author(s):  
Yongsheng Ruan ◽  
Xuedong Wu ◽  
Xiaoqin Feng ◽  
Yuelin He ◽  
Chunfu Li

Abstract Objectives: To evaluate the influence of pretransplantation serum ferritin on children β-thalassemia major (β-TM) undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Methods: A retrospective analysis of 266 HLA-matched children with β-TM from January 2009 and November 2014 was performed. Transplantation conditioning regimen of these children was the NF-08-TM protocol. Median follow-up time was 28 months (3~62months). We observed the relationship between pretransplantation serum ferritin level and transplantation complications which included infection, graft versus host disease(GVHD),veno-occlusive disease(VOD) and death. Results: Transplantation-related death occurred in 18 of 266 patients (6.8%). Five-year overall survival (OS) was found to be 92.8%. Among various complications, only infection was significantly associated with the high serum ferritin level (t=-2.673, P=0.008), especially serum ferritin above 3449.5μg/L(P=0.000). Meanwhile infection was the most common complication and severe infection would be main cause of deaths. Conclusions: NF-08-TM conditioning regimen was the optimization for HLA-matched β-TM patients. High pretransplantation serum ferritin level would bring high infection occurrence. Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


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