[Allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation from sibling donors for 10 patients with multiple myeloma].
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the efficacy of allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (allo-PBSCT) from sibling donors for treatment of multiple myeloma (MM).


METHODS
Ten patients with MM received allo-PBSCT with conditioning consisting of fludarabine plus melphalan and cyclophosphamide mostly.CsA plus mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) and short-term MTX were applied to prevent graft versus host disease (GVHD) in 8 patients, FK506 plus short-term MTX in other 2 patients.


RESULTS
All patients engrafted successfully, the median time for ANC > 0.5 × 10(9)/L was 16 (12 - 24) days, and for BPC > 20 × 10(9)/L 23 (16 - 102) days. Five patients developed acute GVHD, and only one III-IV aGVHD. Of 9 patients, 7 developed chronic GVHD. The transplant-related mortality (TRM) at 100 days was 10% (1/10), mainly from heart and renal failure and severe infection. The 1-year expected overall survival (OS), 1-year disease-free survival (DFS) and relapse rate were 67.5%, 55.56% and 11.11% respectively. Up to now, 6 patients were still alive, of them 1 patient have survived over 99 months after allo-PBSCT.


CONCLUSIONS
Young MM patients having HLA-identical sibling donors well tolerated allo-PBSCT based on fludarabine to prolong their OS by reducing TRM, though further work is warranted.
Department of Hematology, the Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China.
Hai-feng
HF
Lan
Zhen-gang
ZG
Yuan
Chun-yang
CY
Zhang
Yu-bao
YB
Chen
Wei-jun
WJ
Fu
Hua
H
Jiang
Hao
H
Xi
Jian
J
Hou
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009101:Multiple Myeloma / Q000601:surgery*; D036102:Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation; D035781:Siblings; D014019:Tissue Donors; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous