title: Haplotype mismatched transplantation using high doses of peripheral blood CD34+ cells together with stratified conditioning regimens for high-risk adult acute myeloid leukemia patients: a pilot study in a single Korean institution.
abstract: A total of 11 high-risk Korean acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients received stem cell transplantation from human leukocyte antigen (HLA) haploidentical donors. Specifically, for eight patients with 2-3 mismatched antigens and bidirectional vectors, we used a newly designed conditioning regimen that consists of total body irradiation, busulfex, ATG, and fludarabine. The median number of CD34+ cells infused was 15.4 x 10(6)/kg (range, 8-21.2). These patients received neither graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) prophylaxis nor post transplantation G-CSF. All of the patients who were followed up for a median of 6 months (range, 17 days-28 months) showed stable primary engraftment and had no acute GvHD or transplant-related mortality for 100 days post transplant. Three patients with high-risk or refractory disease eventually died in relapse, even with GvH-directed NK alloreactivity. However, the patients in complete remission (CR), with the exception of one patient who is alive at 18 months EFS, died at 4, 6, and 8 months post transplantation due to infections that were associated with delayed immune recovery. Our findings suggest that haploidentical transplantation represents a feasible treatment for patients with high-risk AML in CR, provided that a plan for the enhancement of immune recovery is implemented.
authors.affiliation: Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Catholic Hemopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Center, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: H-J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: W-S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Min
authors.forename: Y-J
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: D-W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: J-W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: C-C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D018952:Antigens, CD34 / Q000032:analysis*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006086:Graft vs Host Disease / Q000209:etiology; D006239:Haplotypes; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006801:Humans; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D036102:Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D019172:Transplantation Conditioning; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D018952:Antigens, CD34