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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-1-14
pubmed:abstractText
Bone marrow transplantation from unrelated donors (UR-BMT) has been considered to be effective for patients with hematological malignancies who have no suitable related donor. However, disparities of HLA between a recipient and a donor increase the risk of severe acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). We evaluated GVHD prophylaxis using tacrolimus and methotrexate for HLA-A, B, or DRB1 genotypically mismatched UR-BMT. Fifty-five patients were enrolled in this study. The incidence of grade III to IV acute GVHD was 23.6% for all patients. No significant difference in the incidence of grade III to IV acute GVHD was observed between HLA-A or B 1 locus mismatch transplantation (18.8%) and HLA-DRB1 1 locus mismatch transplantation (16.7%) (P = 0.96). The incidence of chronic GVHD was 71.7%. Disease-free survival at 5 years was 53.2% for patients with standard risk disease and 24.5% for patients with high-risk disease. Patients with chronic GVHD exhibited better disease-free survival than those without chronic GVHD (53.2 vs. 30.9%, P = 0.011). Twenty patients (36.4%) had a relapse of leukemia and 14 of them died of recurrent leukemia. This study indicates tacrolimus and methotrexate can lower the risk of severe acute GVHD after HLA-A, B, or DRB1 genotypically 1 locus mismatched UR-BMT.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
1865-3774
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
89
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
98-105
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19052693-Acute Disease, pubmed-meshheading:19052693-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:19052693-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:19052693-Asian Continental Ancestry Group, pubmed-meshheading:19052693-Bone Marrow Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:19052693-Cause of Death, pubmed-meshheading:19052693-Female, pubmed-meshheading:19052693-Graft vs Host Disease, pubmed-meshheading:19052693-HLA Antigens, pubmed-meshheading:19052693-HLA-A Antigens, pubmed-meshheading:19052693-HLA-B Antigens, pubmed-meshheading:19052693-HLA-DR Antigens, pubmed-meshheading:19052693-HLA-DRB1 Chains, pubmed-meshheading:19052693-Histocompatibility Testing, pubmed-meshheading:19052693-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19052693-Male, pubmed-meshheading:19052693-Methotrexate, pubmed-meshheading:19052693-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:19052693-Tacrolimus, pubmed-meshheading:19052693-Treatment Outcome, pubmed-meshheading:19052693-Young Adult
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Phase II study of tacrolimus and methotrexate for prophylaxis of acute graft-versus-host disease after HLA-A, B, and DRB1 genotypically mismatched unrelated bone marrow transplantation among Japanese patients.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Internal Medicine, Japanese Red Cross Nagoya First Hospital, Nagoya, Japan. tnishida@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Multicenter Study, Clinical Trial, Phase II