title: Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation with T-cell-depleted marrow grafts for patients with poor-risk relapsed low-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
abstract: We present the clinical results of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) with T-cell-depleted grafts from HLA-matched sibling donors in patients with poor-risk relapsed low-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). Poor risk was defined as relapse within 12 months after or progression during prior treatment. The conditioning regimen consisted of cyclophosphamide and total-body irradiation with or without additional idarubicin. Donor marrow was depleted of T lymphocytes using counterflow centrifugation. Post-BMT prophylaxis of graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) consisted of cyclosporine A. 15 patients with a median age of 47 years (range 30-57) were transplanted. All patients engrafted. After a median follow-up of 36 months (range 9-78), 10 patients were alive and in complete remission (CR). Two of them had relapsed after BMT but re-entered CR following infusions of leucocytes from the original bone marrow donor. Five patients died; causes of death were cardiomyopathy (n = 1), chronic GvHD (n = 1) and infection during chronic GvHD (n = 3). We conclude that allogeneic T-cell-depleted bone marrow transplantation is an efficacious treatment for patients with poor-risk relapsed low-grade NHL. Infusions of donor leucocytes reinduced CR in the two patients with relapse after BMT.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University Hospital Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Mandigers
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Raemaekers
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Schattenberg
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Roovers
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Bogman
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: van der Maazen
authors.forename: B E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: De Pauw
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: De Witte
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006085:Graft Survival; D006086:Graft vs Host Disease / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D017708:Leukocyte Transfusion; D008212:Lymphocyte Depletion / Q000009:adverse effects; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012008:Recurrence; D013601:T-Lymphocytes; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D016896:Treatment Outcome