title: Follow up of hemopoietic chimerism in individuals given allogeneic hemopoietic stem cell allografts using an immunosuppressive, non-myeloablative conditioning regimen: a prospective study in a single institution.
abstract: Thirty consecutive patients were given non-myeloablative stem cell transplants (NST) and posttransplant chimerism was studied by several methods. In 16 individuals definitive proofs of chimerism have been shown: In 10 cases sex chimerism, in 7 cases chimerism shown by means of microsatellites, in 4 cases ABO chimerism, in two cases Rh chimerism and in one HLA-DR chimerism. In addition, in 9 individuals the disappearance of the molecular marker of the leukemia is an indirect evidence of the chimerism, as well as the presence of graft versus host disease (GVHD) in 17 allografted patients. Only in 6 patients no evidence of chimerism could be shown; all of them died as a result of either persistent or relapsing malignancy. Since the early patterns of chimerism may be predictive of either GVHD or graft loss in NST and, since therapeutic intervention (such as donor lymphocytes infusions) is based in the patterns of chimerism, it is possible that chimerism studies in these types of allografts should be ideally done more frequently than in conventional allotransplants.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Hematología y Medicina Interna de Puebla, Mexico. gruiz1@puebla.megared.net.mx
authors.forename: Guillermo J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Ruiz-Argüelles
authors.forename: Briceida
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: López-Martíneza
authors.forename: Ma Rayo
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Santellán-Olea
authors.forename: Glexsy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Abreu-Díaz
authors.forename: Virginia
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Reyes-Núñez
authors.forename: Alejandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ruiz-Argüelles
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Garcés-Eisele
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006084:Graft Rejection / Q000175:diagnosis; D006086:Graft vs Host Disease / Q000175:diagnosis; D019337:Hematologic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D006410:Hematopoiesis; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D011446:Prospective Studies; D018183:Transplantation Chimera; D019172:Transplantation Conditioning / Q000379:methods*; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents