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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-6-7
pubmed:abstractText
This study describes the outcome of patients receiving haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) to treat severe refractory autoimmune cytopenia. The registry of the European Group of Blood and Marrow Transplantation holds data on 36 patients receiving 38 transplants, the first transplant was autologous for 27 and allogeneic for nine patients. Patients had autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (autologous: 5; allogeneic: 2), Evans's syndrome (autologous: 2; allogeneic: 5); immune thrombocytopenia (autologous: 12), pure red cell aplasia (autologous: 4; allogeneic: 1), pure white cell aplasia (autologous: 1; allogeneic 1), or thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (autologous: 3). Patients had longstanding disease having failed multiple prior treatments. Among 26 evaluable patients mobilized for autologous HSCT, three died of treatment-related causes, one died of disease progression, seven were non-responders, six patients had transient responses and nine had continuous partial or complete remission. Of the seven evaluable patients receiving allogeneic HSCT, one died of treatment-related complications, one with transient response died of progressive disease and five had a continuous response. Autologous and allogeneic HSCT may induce a response in a subset of patients with autoimmune cytopenia of long duration albeit at the price of considerable toxicity.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0007-1048
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
125
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
749-55
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15180864-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:15180864-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:15180864-Anemia, Hemolytic, Autoimmune, pubmed-meshheading:15180864-Autoimmune Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:15180864-Child, pubmed-meshheading:15180864-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:15180864-Databases, Factual, pubmed-meshheading:15180864-Female, pubmed-meshheading:15180864-Follow-Up Studies, pubmed-meshheading:15180864-Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:15180864-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15180864-Male, pubmed-meshheading:15180864-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:15180864-Red-Cell Aplasia, Pure, pubmed-meshheading:15180864-Thrombocytopenia, pubmed-meshheading:15180864-Transplantation, Autologous, pubmed-meshheading:15180864-Transplantation, Homologous, pubmed-meshheading:15180864-Treatment Outcome
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Haematopoetic stem cell transplantation for refractory autoimmune cytopenia.
pubmed:affiliation
Basel University Hospitals, Basel, Switzerland. jakob.passweg@unibas.ch
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Multicenter Study