title: Two consecutive courses of rh-G-CSF-mobilized peripheral blood stem cells for primary marrow alloengraftment failure: case report.
abstract: We describe herein a case of bone marrow failure in a 53-year-old patient affected by Ph1-positive chronic myeloid leukemia who received an HLA-identical AB0-mismatched bone marrow transplant from a 56-year-old sibling donor. Hematopoietic recovery after marrow failure was obtained following two consecutive courses of rh-G-CSF-mobilized peripheral blood stem cell infusions. No potential risk factors associated with graft failure, excluding recipient and donor age, were documented, whereas a relatively high number of progenitor cells were necessary to overcome the host-versus-graft barrier in our patient. Therefore we suggest that growth factor-stimulated peripheral blood should be considered as the first choice for allogeneic stem cells in order to avoid primary graft failure with donors over 50 years of age.
authors.affiliation: Centro Trapianti di Midollo Osseo e Terapie Onco-Ematologiche Sovramassimali Alberto Neri, Dipartimento di Emato-Oncologia, Azienda Ospedaliera Bianchi-Melacrino-Morelli, Reggio Calabria, Italy. sp00404@relay1.it.net
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Martino
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pucci
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Irrera
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Messina
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Morabito
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Iacopino
mesh_terms: D001772:Blood Cell Count / Q000187:drug effects; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D006084:Graft Rejection; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000494:pharmacology*; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000187:drug effects*; D006801:Humans; D015464:Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / Q000097:blood* / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous
chemical_list: D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor