title: [Treatment of Hodgkin's disease with high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation].
abstract: High dose chemotherapy (HDC) with autologous stem cell transplantation (SCT) was applied for the treatment of 13 patients (pts) with Hodgkin's disease (HD) (10 with relapsed form and 3 with conventional chemotherapy resistant form) in the Clinic for Hematology, Military Medical Academy, from May 1997 to October 1999. After the initial treatment for the reduction of tumor, burden stem cells were mobilized by cyclophosphamide 2.5-7.0 g/m2 with G-CSF 5-12 micrograms/kg body mass (BM). The average number of colected mobilized mononuclear cells (MNC) was 2.99 (1.66-5.9) x 10(8)/kg BM by the apheresis large volume from peripheral blood. All patients received BEAM (BCNU, etoposide, Cyto-Ara, and melfalan) conditioning regimen with adequate supportive therapy. Good engraftment (100%) was observed at postransplantation period: number of polymorphonuclear cells was > 0.5 x 10(9)/l, on day 13th (10-21) and number of platelets > 20 x 10(9)/l, on day 17th (11-28). One patient (7.6%) died due to infective complications at day 98th after transplantation, 9 (69.2%) patients achieved complete and 3 (23.1%) patients partial remission of the disease. Out of three patients with partial remission, one relapsed, seven months after autologous SCT, with conventional chemotherapy resistant form and two, after the applied conventional locoregional radiotherapy reached remission. One patient (7.6%) developed secondary malignancy of acute myeloid leukemia form with threelinage displasy 27 months after autologous SCT. HDC with autologous SCT contributes to more successful treatment of early relapsed and standard chemotherapy resistant forms of HD and gives the opportunity for successful quality of living for those patients.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stamatović
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Marjanović
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Balint
authors.forename: Lj
authors.initials: Lj
authors.lastname: Tukić
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Radić
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Malesević
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male
vernacular_title: Lecenje Hodgkin-ove bolesti visokim dozama hemioterapeutike uz autologu transplantaciju maticnih ćelija hematopoeze.