HLA-Haploidentical HSCT with Post-Transplant Cyclophosphamide for Severe Aplastic Anemia

Blood ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 120 (21) ◽  
pp. 4510-4510
Author(s):  
Yuelin He ◽  
Chunfu Li ◽  
Xuedong Wu ◽  
Xiaohui Zhou ◽  
Xiaoqin Feng ◽  
...  

Abstract Abstract 4510 Objective To investigate the effect of pretransplantation donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) and posttransplantation cycolphosphamide (CY) to prevent graft rejection and graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) after bone marrow transplantation plus peripheral blood stem cell transplantation from HLA-haploidentical mismatched related donors. Methods Four patients (median age, 11 years; range, 8–15 years) with severe aplastic anemia and all of them had HLA-haploidentical donors more than or equal to 2/8 HLA (HLA-A, B, C and DRB1) mismatched at antigen level. The conditioning regimen consisted of pretransplantation DLI (Lymphocytes, 1×10e7/kg at day -9); 40mg/m2/day of fludarabine (day-6 to -2); 3.2mg/kg/day of Busulfex (day-6 and -5); 10mg/kg/day of Thiotepa (day -4) and 50mg/kg/day of Cy on day -7, 14.5mg/kg on day-3,-2 and 40mg/kg on day +3,+4, respectively. The prophylaxis of acute GVHD consisted of tacrolimus and mycophenolate mofetil. The median follow-up time is 5 (rang: 3–6) months. Results The median times to neutrophil (>500/ÌL) and platelet recovery (>20,000/ÌL) were 21 and 23.5 days, respectively. No acute GVHD and Chronic GVHD were, so far, observed for all patients and were survive without SAA. Conclusion Posttransplantation cyclophosphamide for the prophylaxis of acute GVHD was safe and effective. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.

Blood ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 120 (21) ◽  
pp. 4151-4151
Author(s):  
Sung-Eun Lee ◽  
Jae-Ho Yoon ◽  
Seung-Hwan Shin ◽  
Seung-Ah Yahng ◽  
Byung-Sik Cho ◽  
...  

Abstract Abstract 4151 For the patient with severe aplastic anemia (SAA) who do not have a sibling donor and had failed to immunosuppressive therapy, allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) from an unrelated donor is therapeutic option. Although unrelated SCT (u-SCT) has shown less favorable outcomes, there were few studies comparing unrelated donor to sibling donor transplant. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the feasibility of u-SCT in adult SAA patients compared with sibling SCT (s-SCT). This study examined 157 consecutive patients who underwent allogeneic SCT at our institution between April 2001 and December 2011. In this study, for a homogenous cohort, patients who received second allogeneic SCT were excluded. The diagnosis of acute GVHD or chronic GVHD was made as the NIH published consensus criteria. There were 71 male and 86 female patients with a median age of 31 years (range, 13–59 years). The median interval from the diagnosis to transplantation was 24 months (range; 1–346 months). The median transfusions prior to SCT were 47 units (range; 4–680 units). Patients with SAA (n=114) or VSAA (n=43) had received SCT from sibling donor (n=82) or unrelated donor (n=75). The conditioning regimen for s-SCT consisted of fludarabine (180 mg/m2) + cyclophosphamide (CY, 100 mg/kg) + ATG (10 mg/kg), and the conditioning regimen for u-SCT consisted of TBI (fractionated, 800 cGy) + CY (100–120 mg/kg) ± ATG (2.5 mg/kg) (Lee JW, et al, Biol BMT 2011, 17:101). GVHD prophylaxis consisted of CsA + MTX in s-SCT and FK506 + mini-MTX in u-SCT, respectively. After a median follow-up of 45 and 50 months for s-SCT and u-SCT, respectively, the 3-year estimated OS rates were 92.7 and 89 % for s-SCT and u-SCT (P=0.650), respectively. 15 patients (7 in s-SCT, 8 in u-SCT) died of transplant toxicities, including in s-SCT, acute GVHD (n=1), infections (n=4), and occurrence of MDS or AML (n=2) and in u-SCT, acute GVHD (n=4), chronic GVHD (n=1), infection (n=1), thrombotic microangiopathy (n=1). Nine patients (8 in s-SCT, 1 in u-SCT) developed secondary engraftment failure. The cumulative incidence of acute GVHD (≥grade II) was 4.9% in s-SCT and 44.0% in u-SCT (P<0.001). The cumulative incidence of chronic GVHD also showed higher in u-SCT than s-SCT (4.2% vs 44.4%, P<0.001). This study showed that survival of u-SCT is comparable to that of s-SCT. Therefore, early application of u-SCT should be considered in patients with SAA/VSAA in case of availability of well matched donor. Because the incidence of GVHD is significantly higher in u-SCT than s-SCT, further study is mandatory to reduce the incidence of GVHD in u-SCT setting. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


Blood ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 108 (11) ◽  
pp. 605-605
Author(s):  
Karen K. Ballen ◽  
Corey Cutler ◽  
Thomas R. Spitzer ◽  
Beow Yeap ◽  
Steve McAfee ◽  
...  

Abstract Umbilical cord blood is an alternative stem cell source for patients without matched related or unrelated donors. However, single cord blood unit transplantation in adults is associated with high transplant related mortality, mostly due to infection. In this study, we used a reduced intensity conditioning regimen followed by infusion of two partially matched cord blood units. The conditioning regimen was fludarabine 30mg/m2/day Days -8,-7,-6,-5,-4,-3 (total dose 180mg/m2), melphalan 100mg/m2/day Day -2, and rabbit antithymocyte globulin (thymoglobulin) 1.5 mg/kg/day Days -7,-5,-3,-1 (total dose 6.0 mg/kg). Cord blood units were a 4/6 or better HLA A, B, DR match with each other and with the patient, and contained a minimum combined pre-freeze cell dose of 3.7 x 107NC/kg. GVHD prophylaxis was cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil, for the first 21 patients, and tacrolimus and sirolimus for the second cohort of 19 patients. Forty patients, 22 males (55%) and 18 females (45%) with a median age of 48 years (range 19–64 years) were treated. The diagnoses were AML (n=14), ALL (n=1), NHL (n=10), CLL (n=2), MDS (n=5), Hodgkins Disease (n=5), aplastic anemia (n=2), and chronic myelogeneous leukemia (n=1). Thirty-five patients have greater than 100 days of follow-up and are included in this analysis. The cell doses infused were a median of 4.0 x 10 7NC/kg (range 3.0–6.7 x 107) and 1.9 x 10 5 CD34+ cells/kg (range 0.5–10.0 x 105). Two patients (both with MDS complicating aplastic anemia) experienced primary graft failure, and received second cord blood transplants using a different conditioning regimen. Among the remaining patients, the median time to an absolute neutrophil count &gt;500 was 21 days (range 14–70 days). There were two late graft failures. The median time to a platelet count &gt;20,000 unsupported was 43 days (range 21–125 days). The incidence of acute GVHD Grades II–IV was 40% for the patients receiving cyclosporine/MMF and 29% for patients receiving tacrolimus and sirolimus. There were no deaths from acute GVHD in the cyclosporine/MMF group and one death from acute GVHD in the tacrolimus/sirolimus group. Seven patients (20%) developed chronic GVHD. The 100-day transplant related mortality was 14%. Two deaths were related to Epstein Barr virus related lymphoproliferative disorder, and the other deaths were due to a CNS bleed, staphylococcal sepsis, and respiratory failure due to aspergillus infection. Two patients have relapsed and one has progressive disease. With a median follow up of 14 months (range 3–31 months) the overall survival is 74% and the disease-free survival is 67%. Chimerism analysis showed predominance of one cord by Day +100. In 71% of patients, the first cord blood unit infused predominated. In conclusion, engraftment of adult patients appears to be acceptable using double cord blood products and reduced intensity, non TBI conditioning regimen; the risk of serious acute and chronic GVHD is low, survival is excellent in a selected group of patients and relapse rate is low, suggesting preservation of graft versus leukemia effect despite the low T cell dose.


Blood ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 104 (11) ◽  
pp. 5156-5156
Author(s):  
Masoud Iravani ◽  
Maryam Tavakoli ◽  
Ahmad Reza Shamshiri ◽  
Mohammad Reza Evazi ◽  
Asadollah Mousavi ◽  
...  

Abstract Following 3 other centers in USA, Canada and Germany, we are evaluating fludarabine (40 mg/m2 on days −6 to −2) and busulfan (4 mg/kg/day on days −5 to −2) as a new conditioning regimen for allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation in leukemic patients with matched related donors. Seventy one patients were enrolled, 18 with high and 53 with standard risk (18 ALL, 35 AML, 16 CML and 2 MDS; F=29 M=42). The median patient age was 23.7 years(range, 2.4– 46.7). Cyclosporine was used as a prophylactic agent for GVHD (3mg/kg IV till +4, 10 mg/kg oral from day +5). The median follow-up was 269 days (range, 50–459 days). 91.5% and 15.5% developed mucositis and hepatic toxicity respectively which resolved with conservative therapy. There was no cardiac toxicity (except one patient with mild pericardial effusion and another with tachycardia). The median of highest serum creatinin level during hospitalization were 1.6 mg/dl (range, 0.8–3.7; 24.3% with Cr>2) and serum cyclosporine level, at the same time, was 246 ng/ml (range, 9–814). 7% experienced hemorrhagic cystitis (infection was ruled out) and 36.6% experienced moderate to severe headache. 38% and 14.1% of the patients showed grade 1, 2 and grade 3 acute GVHD respectively. Grade 4 acute GVHD was found in one patient. 50% and 6% showed limited and extensive chronic GVHD. 27% of patients became CMV+ (min +17, max +69). The median time for neutrophil and platelet recovery were 10 (min 0, max +26) and 12 (min 0, max +30) days. In day +38, 86.7% of the patients had 90% or more, mononuclear chimerism (with STR-PCR technique; median, 97%; range, 25–100). 5 ALL and 8 AML patients relapsed (18.3% of all patients) and 6 (8.45%) died after relapse. Nonrelapse mortality was 13% (9 patients; acute GVHD grade IV=1, CMV infection and GVHD=2, CMV infection=2, pneumonia=2, infection=2). With a median follow up of 9 months (range, 1.6–15.3 months), the probability of overall survival and disease free survival were 79.68% and 81.26% respectively. It could be beneficial to use fludarabine versus cyclophosphamide in standard conditioning regimen for leukemic patients because of reduced toxicity, low incidence of acute GVHD and facilitated donor engraftment.


Blood ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 106 (11) ◽  
pp. 2052-2052
Author(s):  
Alana A. Kennedy-Nasser ◽  
Kathryn Leung ◽  
Steven Gottschalk ◽  
Dean A. Lee ◽  
George Carrum ◽  
...  

Abstract Matched related donor (MRD) bone marrow transplantation is the treatment of choice for pediatric patients with severe aplastic anemia; however, only 25% of patients will have an HLA-identical sibling. Alternative donor transplants may be an option for these patients, but such therapies have been associated with greater incidences of graft failures and graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). We retrospectively analyzed 32 pediatric patients who have undergone either bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplant for severe aplastic anemia at our institution from April 1997 to April 2005. These patients had a total of 34 transplants. One patient had a MRD transplant followed by a matched unrelated donor (MUD) transplant eight years later, while another patient had a HLA-mismatched unrelated donor (MMUD) transplant followed by a transplant from a haplo-identical parent. Of the remaining 30 patients, 12 received MRD transplants, whereas 18 patients received alternative donor transplants - 11 MUD, 3 haplo-identical donors, and 4 MMUD. The median age at transplant was 9 years (range 1.5 to 18.4 yrs). All patients who received alternative donor transplants had previously failed therapy, including antithymocyte globulin (ATG) and cyclosporine. For MRD transplants, the conditioning regimen most often utilized cyclophosphamide 50 mg/kg x 4 days and ATG 30 mg/kg x 3 days. For alternative donor transplants, the conditioning regimen most often utilized cyclophosphamide 50 mg/kg x 4 days, Campath 3–10 mg x 4 days (dependent upon patient’s weight) or ATG 30 mg/kg x 3 days, and TBI (single fraction 200 cGy for MUD; two fractions 200 cGy for MMUD). Alternative donor recipients who received ATG in their preparative regimen were transplanted between December 1997 and March 2001 (n=9), whereas patients who received Campath were treated between November 2001 and April 2005 (n=11). GVHD prophylaxis was either FK506 or cyclosporine +/− mini-methotrexate. The overall survival for MRD patients was 91.7% versus 80% for alternative donor patients at a median follow-up of 47 months (range 3 to 100 months). Of the 32 patients, there were 5 deaths: pulmonary failure with extensive, chronic GVHD (n=1); poor graft function with infection (n=1); and infection (n=3). For patients receiving alternative donor transplants, the overall survival for the Campath group was 81.8% vs. 77.8% in the ATG group. None of the Campath patients developed extensive, chronic GVHD compared to 3/9 ATG patients. In conclusion, alternative donor transplantation using Campath or ATG in the preparatory regimens can establish donor engraftment and offers a curative therapy for pediatric severe aplastic anemia patients with survival similar to that of patients receiving matched sibling transplants. Although follow-up is shorter, Campath may be associated with a reduced incidence of extensive, chronic GVHD and further investigation is warranted.


Blood ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 120 (21) ◽  
pp. 1921-1921 ◽  
Author(s):  
SeungHwan Shin ◽  
JaeHo Yoon ◽  
SeungAh Yahng ◽  
SungEun Lee ◽  
ByungSik Cho ◽  
...  

Abstract Abstract 1921 Background: There is a controversy concerning upper age limit of recipient in allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) of severe aplastic anemia (SAA) because older patients have an increased risk of transplant-related mortality (TRM). Recently, a less toxic regimen comprising reduced dose of cyclophosphamide (CY), fludarabine (Flu), and ATG (Flu/CY/ATG) was introduced for conditioning the patients with SAA scheduled for HLA-identical sibling allo-SCT. We analyzed the outcome of these patients after conditioning with Flu/CY/ATG regimen according to recipient's age. Method: We analyzed 82 consecutive adult patients transplanted from March 2002 to June 2011, followed conditioning with CY (50 mg/kg/day × 2 days), Flu (30 mg/m2/day × 6 days), and ATG (2.5 mg/kg/day × 4 days). Results: The median age of patients was 39 years (range, 13–58 years). 29 (35.4%) patients were very SAA at the time of allo-SCT. Stem cell sources were bone marrow (BM, n=59), peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC, n=12), and BM+PBSC (CD34+ cell selection, n=11). The conditioning regimen was well tolerated, with low TRM (4.9%). Neutrophil engraftment was observed in all patients; the median time to engraftment of neutrophils and platelets was 12 and 17 days, respectively. The 100-day cumulative incidence (CI) of acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD, grade °Ã2) was 3.7% and 2-year CI of chronic GVHD was 4.4%. With a median follow-up of 3 years, overall survival (OS) and failure-free survival was 93% and 83%, respectively. Seven patients (8.5%) developed delayed graft failure and 6 patients of them have successful durable engraftment after second allo-SCT without TRM. Seven patients died of veno-occlusive disease (n=1), cytomegalovirus pneumonia (n=2), sepsis (n=2), clonal evolution after allo-SCT (n=2, 1 acute myeloid leukemia and 1 myelodysplastic syndrome), respectively. 3-year probability of OS by age group were 88% at less than 20 years old (n=8), 97% at 20–39 (n=34), 92% at 40–49 (n=26), 86% at 50–59 (n=14). There is no significant difference in OS according to age group (p=0.426). Conclusion: These data indicate that the Flu/CY/ATG conditioning regimen is well tolerable with low TRM and CI of GVHD in all age group. Similar OS according to 4-divided age group suggest that patient's age more than 50 years old might be possible candidate for allo-SCT in SAA with Flu/CY/ATG conditioning regimen. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


Blood ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 128 (22) ◽  
pp. 5877-5877 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ezzideen Barjes Alrawi ◽  
Erica D. Warlick ◽  
Qing Cao ◽  
Mukta Arora ◽  
Shernan G. Holtan ◽  
...  

Abstract CD34+ cell dose is a critical determinant of outcomes after allogeneic PBSC transplantation, with a CD34 dose ≥2.0 x 10e6/kg shown to positively impact hematopoietic engraftment and survival. However, it is unknown whether additional benefits are observed with even higher CD34 cell doses. Therefore, we further explored the effect of intermediate, high and very high CD34 cell doses on the incidence of engraftment, acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) and transplant related mortality (TRM) and on probability of survival and GVHD-Relapse-free survival (GRFS). Three hundred and five consecutive patients transplanted with GCSF-mobilized PBSC from HLA-matched sibling donors (MSD) were evaluated. Patients were ≥16 years of age, had a hematological malignancy and received a myeloablative or a nonmyeloablative conditioning regimen between 2002 and 2012. The median recipient age was 52 years (r, 19-74 years) with most being male (n=194, 63.8%) diagnosed with leukemia (72%) or lymphoma (22%), and intermediate disease risk index (DRI, n=204, 67%). The median age for the donor were 49 years (r,17-76 years). In 159 patients (52%) the donor and recipient were sex matched with 89 male patients having a female door (29%). The ABO blood type was matched in 195 patients (64%), 153(50%) received a myeloablative (MA) conditioning regimen, and 37 (12%) received a reduce intensity conditioning regimen containing ATG. The median follow up of surviving patients was 793 days (r, 14-4562 days). Patients were divided in four CD34 dose quartiles: first quartile (QT1), ≤4.8 x10e6/kg, QT2 4.8-6.0 x10e6/kg, QT3 6.0-7.5 x10e6/kg, and QT4 ≥ 7.6 x 10e6/kg. Notably, the CD3 doses were similar for all quartiles: QT1 was 3.4 x 10e8/kg (r, 0.3-10.0), QT2 was 2.7 x 10e8/kg (r, 1.1-7.6), QT3 was 2.8 x 10e8/kg (r, 0.8-7.2) and QT4 was 2.8 x 10e8/kg (r, 1.4-7.7); there was no correlation between CD34 and CD3 cell doses. Patient and donor characteristics were similar in the four groups except for shorter median follow-up (P <0.01) in QT1, more sex mismatched grafts (P <0.01) in QT3, and lower median number of cell collections (P <0.01) and more female donor: male recipient pairs (P< 0.01) in QT4. Multivariate analysis results are summarized on the table. Higher CD34+ cell dose was associated with improved platelet recovery with trends toward lower TRM and improved overall survival. Chronic GVHD however was also higher. In summary, additional studies are needed to establish a survival benefit in recipients of higher cell doses >4.8 x 10e6 CD34 cells/kg. Unless survival is positively impacted, the higher risk of chronic GVHD would argue for assigning an upper CD34 cell dose limit to reduce this risk that can significantly impair quality of life. Table Table. Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


Blood ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 134 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 5745-5745
Author(s):  
Ana Rojas Fonseca ◽  
Vivian Aparecida Zanao ◽  
Katya Parisio ◽  
José Salvador Rodrigues de Oliveira

Significant improvements in haploidentical stem cell transplantation (haplo-SCT) have confirmed its therapeutic role in severe aplastic anemia (SAA) and led to the evolution of treatment algorithms. However, the optimal conditioning regimen for haplo-SCT for SAA remains undefined. A recent review demonstrated haplo-SCT using NMA and RIC, engraftment between 75 to100% and OS one year of 75-100%. In our Institutions we started a double source since Jan 2017 using a RIC protocol that is the objective of this presentation. There were nine haplo-SCT in eight patients in two Brazilian centers, Hospital Santa Marcelina (n=5) and Hospital São Paulo (n=3). All patients were male, median age 26 years old (14-39), nocturnal paroxysmal hemoglobinuria clonality in five (62,5%); treated with Cyclosporine, Thymoglobulin (n=4), Eltrombopag (n=1), Eculizumab (n=2) and/or Alemtuzumab (n=1). Median time disease to transplant was 15,7 months (3.8-192). All patients submitted more than 20 RBC transfusions, and median of ferritin was 2,283 ng/mL (753-3,486). One patient had carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacilli (CRNGB: Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and/or Pseudomonas aeruginosa). Panel reactive antibody was negative in all patients. The donor was a sibling in 44% (n=4), father and mother 22% each (n=2) and one patient received cells from his cousin after an early failure of engraftment from mother first transplant. The cause of this failure was a JC virus and adenovirus acute infections. The second haplo-SCT conditioning was Fludarabine, Cyclophosphamide and 600 cGy TLI. There were seven male donors. RIC was consisted of Fludarabine, Cyclophosphamide and total body irradiation (TBI) 200 cGy. The source was G-CSF primed bone marrow (G-BM) grafts in combination with PBSC no ex-vivo T cells depleted, and Cyclophosphamide 50 mg/Kg/day IV on days +3 and +4 post-transplant (PTCy), as well as graft versus host disease (GvHD) prophylaxis. The median of G-BM MNCs was 5.4 x 10⁸/Kg (2.3-8.7), and PBSC was 10 x 10⁶CD34+/Kg (4-18.7). One (11%) patient died for sepsis at day +13, he was the only with a confirmed CRGNB colonization before transplant. The ANC recovery was at day +17 (13-24). No one had Sinusoidal Obstructive Syndrome. Acute GvHD grade II and moderate chronic GvHD was observed in two patients (25%). Two patients had engrafting failure: the first at day +30 and received a successfully new haplo-SCT; the second at day +60, with a partial donor reconstitution without dependence of transfusion after immunosuppressive therapy. These two patients had female donors. The OS and DFS at two years were 87.5% and 75%, respectively. In conclusion, with a median follow-up of 30 months, haplo-SCT, PTCy with double source keep the 87.5% overall survival, with no one severe chronic GvHD. Our data suggests an excellent results for haplo-SCT, PTCy, RIC, double source in the SAA treatment. However, prospective well-designed trials need to confirm these results. Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


Blood ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 106 (11) ◽  
pp. 2027-2027
Author(s):  
Ki Seong ◽  
Jong Wook Lee ◽  
Yoo Jin Kim ◽  
Hee Je Kim ◽  
Chang Ki ◽  
...  

Abstract Background: Cyclophosphamide (CY, 200 mg/kg) plus ATG seems to be accepted as a standard conditioning regimen in HLA-matched sibling stem cell transplantation (SCT) for severe aplastic anemia (SAA). We report herein the outcome of allogeneic SCT for the patients with SAA conditioned with procarbazine (PCB), ATG and CY. Methods: Between January 1995 and March 2004, consecutive one hundred and sixty two patients with SAA received matched sibling SCT after conditioning with PCB, ATG and CY. The median age of patients was 28.5 (16~50) and median interval between diagnosis and SCT was 10.5 months (1~216). Fifty-five patients (34%) had a history of immunosuppressive therapy before SCT. The conditioning regimen consisted of PCB (6.25 mg/kg/day, 6 days), CY (50 mg/kg/day, 4 days) and ATG (1.25 mg/kg/day, 3 days). No graft manipulation was performed in 92 patients (52%), and donor marrow expansion and megadose transplantation (bone marrow plus CD34+ isolated PB as a stem cell source) were done in 35 patients (21.6%). All patients received of cyclosporine and methotrexate as GVHD prophylaxis. Results: The median dose of CD34+ and CD3+ cells infused were 4.8 x 106/kg (0.8~49.6) and 5.1 x 107/kg (0 ~ 38), respectively. Median time to neutrophil recovery more than 500/μL and platelet recovery more than 20,000/μL were 13 days (0~49) and 19 days (0~150), respectively. All patients achieved successful primary engraftment, but delayed engraftment failure developed in 18 patients (11%). Ten among 18 patients who developed graft failure received second SCT, resulting survival of 9 patients. The incidence of acute (more than grade II) and chronic GVHD were 9.3% (n=15) and 13.0 % (n=21), respectively. DFS and overall survival (OS) at 6 years was also 90%. Factors influencing on DFS on univariate analysis were patient and donor’s age, development of acute and chronic GVHD, and times of pregnancy (over 2 times). Development of acute and chronic GVHD, and occurrence of rejection were factors that influence DFS on multivariate analysis. Causes of death (n=15) were pneumonia (n=4), rejection (n=4), GVHD±infection (n=2), chronic GVHD (n=1), MOF (n=1), CVA (n=1), autoimmune hemolytic anemia (n=1), and unknown (n=1). Conclusions: These data suggest that the conditioning regimen used in this study is feasible for patients with SAA who received matched sibling SCT. GVHD and rejection were the most important factors that influence DFS.


2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e18543-e18543
Author(s):  
Kamal Chamoun ◽  
Alison M Gulbis ◽  
Denai Milton ◽  
Elias Jabbour ◽  
Francesco Turturro ◽  
...  

e18543 Background: GVHD remains the main limitation of alloSCT and is exacerbated by the intensity of the conditioning regimen. In a recent study, the risk of acute grade II-IV GVHD and extensive chronic GVHD (cGVHD) after a nonmyelobaltive (NMA) regimen was 11%, and 26%, respectively (Khouri I. Blood 2014 124:2306). Higher rates were previously observed (32% and 54%, respectively) with the BEAM regimen. Based on clinical data showing a reduction in GVHD with the use of rituximab or bortezomib, we conducted a phase I/II study evaluating the addition of bortezomib to rituximab+BEAM in patients (pts.) who were not eligible for NMA alloSCT. Methods: Bortezomib was administered at 1.3 mg/m2 IV on days -13, -6, -1 and +2. The dose was later reduced to 1 mg/m2 after the occurrence of C. Difficile colitis in the first 3 pts. leading to 2 deaths. Rituximab was given on day -13 at a dose of 375 mg/m2, then at 1000 mg/m2 on days -6, +1, and +8 of alloSCT. BEAM was administered between days -6 and -1. All pts. received our standard GVHD prophylaxis with tacrolimus and methotrexate. In addition, thymoglobulin 1 mg/kg IV was given on days -2, and -1 in patients receiving matched unrelated donor (MUD) or mismatched (MM) transplants. Results: Thirty-nine pts. were studied. Median age was 54 yrs. Thirteen (33%) and 26 (67%) pts. had indolent or aggressive lymphoma histologies, respectively. Sixteen (41%) pts. were refractory. Twenty-two (56%) received alloSCT from HLA-compatible siblings, 16 (41%) from MUDs and 1 (3%) from mm donors. Peripheral blood was the source of stem cells in 97% of pts. ABO and CMV-mismatch rates were 56% had 50%, respectively. Median follow up surviving patients was 65 mos. Five-year OS and PFS rates were 35% and 28%, respectively. The CI of acute grade II-IV, III-IV, and cGVHD were 55%, 34%, and 41%, respectively. No predictor for acute GVHD was identified. Instead, we found that sex-mismatched transplants were predictive of a higher risk of cGVHD ( P= 0.01). Conclusions: The current trial is the first one evaluating the safety and efficacy of bortezomib plus rituximab as a part of the BEAM regimen for alloSCT. A better prophylaxis regimen is needed to lessen the risk of GVHD in this setting. Clinical trial information: NCT00439556.


Blood ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 269-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Gluckman ◽  
MM Horowitz ◽  
RE Champlin ◽  
JM Hows ◽  
A Bacigalupo ◽  
...  

Data for 595 patients with severe aplastic anemia receiving HLA- identical sibling bone marrow transplants were analyzed to determine the effect of pretransplant conditioning and graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis on outcome. Transplants were performed between 1980 and 1987 and reported to the International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry. Three conditioning regimens (cyclophosphamide alone, cyclophosphamide plus limited field radiation, and cyclophosphamide plus total body radiation) were studied; none was associated with superior long-term survival. Three GVHD prophylaxis regimens (methotrexate, cyclosporine, and methotrexate plus cyclosporine) were studied. Recipients of cyclosporine with or without methotrexate had a significantly higher probability of 5-year survival (69%, 95% confidence interval 63% to 74%) than patients receiving methotrexate only (56%, 49% to 62%, P less than .003). Higher survival with cyclosporine resulted from decreased risks of interstitial pneumonia (P less than .0002) and chronic GVHD (P less than .005). Additional risk factors adversely associated with survival included infection pretransplant (P less than .004), use of parous or transfused female donors (P less than .005), older patient age (P less than .005), and 20 or more pretransplant transfusions (P less than .006). These data may prove useful in planning randomized clinical trials and in identifying patients at high-risk of treatment failure.


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