title: Cytogenetic follow-up of 100 patients submitted to bone marrow transplantation for Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia. Cooperative Study Group on Chromosomes in Transplanted Patients.
abstract: 100 Ph+ CML patients submitted to BMT were studied cytogenetically before grafting and serially after transplantation. The 12 European institutions participating in the study, including transplant units and laboratories of cytogenetics, collected a total of 520 studies. The Ph chromosome was observed after BMT in 22 patients who did not enter relapse during the observation time (10-1400 days--median 420 d) following initial detection of the chromosome. This abnormality was observed in 1 to 30% of the cells analyzed. In 10 patients, abnormal cells were detected only within the first 90 d after BMT, in 5 patients both before and after 90 d and in 7 patients only after 90 d. 44% of these 22 patients had a moderate-to-severe cGVHD. Future studies are needed in order to better evaluate the real incidence of persistent disease and the correlations with the GVHD.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006086:Graft vs Host Disease / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007951:Leukemia, Myeloid / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010677:Philadelphia Chromosome; D011379:Prognosis; D012008:Recurrence; D012189:Retrospective Studies