title: Allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation for treatment of induction failure in a patient with Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
abstract: We report a successful case of allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT) for the treatment of primary induction failure in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The patient was a 46-year-old male with Ph-positive ALL and failed to achieve complete remission (CR). His HLA genotypically identical brother refused to donate bone marrow. Instead, PBSCs were collected by apheresis from the brother after administration of G-CSF at a dose of 10 micrograms/kg. For allogeneic PBSCT, the patient was conditioned with marrow ablative chemotherapy and received the PBSC harvest containing 7.8 x 10(4)/kg of CFU-GM, 1.8 x 10(6)/kg of CD34-positive cells and 2.7 x 10(8)/kg of T lymphocytes. After transplant, the neutrophil count exceeded 0.5 x 10(9)/l on day 16 and the platelet count exceeded 20 x 10(9)/l on day 22. CR was confirmed with tri-lineage engraftment in bone marrow samples on days 28 and 49; disappearance of the Ph-chromosome was documented. Sustained engraftment was also confirmed cytogenetically using a variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) markers. Acute graft-vs.-host disease did not develop with conventional prophylaxis of methotrexate and cyclosporine. However, on day 85 the patient developed leukemia relapse and died on day 97. This clinical trial suggests that allogeneic PBSCT may be an alternative to allogeneic bone marrow transplantation in some limited situations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Saga Prefectural Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Matsuishi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Miyamoto
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ota
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yoshitomi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Niho
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Harada
mesh_terms: D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D054198:Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / Q000628:therapy*; D012074:Remission Induction; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D017211:Treatment Failure