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. 2018 Nov;24(11):2259-2264.
doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2018.07.008. Epub 2018 Aug 7.

Reduced-Intensity Conditioning and Dual T Lymphocyte Suppression with Antithymocyte Globulin and Post-Transplant Cyclophosphamide as Graft-versus-Host Disease Prophylaxis in Haploidentical Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplants for Hematological Malignancies

Arjun Datt Law  1 , Maria Queralt Salas  1 , Wilson Lam  1 , Fotios V Michelis  1 , Santhosh Thyagu  1 , Dennis Dong Hwan Kim  1 , Jeffrey Howard Lipton  1 , Rajat Kumar  1 , Hans Messner  1 , Auro Viswabandya  2
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Reduced-Intensity Conditioning and Dual T Lymphocyte Suppression with Antithymocyte Globulin and Post-Transplant Cyclophosphamide as Graft-versus-Host Disease Prophylaxis in Haploidentical Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplants for Hematological Malignancies

Arjun Datt Law et al. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2018 Nov.

Abstract

Haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (haploHSCT) with conditioning regimens using post-transplant cyclophosphamide (PTCy) for peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) grafts is limited by comparably higher rates of acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Antithymocyte globulin (ATG) may mitigate this risk. We evaluated haploHSCT after reduced-intensity conditioning (RIC) with ATG, PTCy, and cyclosporine to prevent rejection and GVHD. Fifty adults underwent haploHSCT from August 2016 to February 2018. RIC included fludarabine (30 mg/m2/day on days -5 to -2), busulfan (3.2 mg/m2/day on days -3 and -2), and total body irradiation (200 cGy) on day -1. Unmanipulated PBSCs were infused on day 0. GVHD prophylaxis included ATG (4.5 mg/kg over days -3 to -1), PTCy (50 mg/kg/day on days +3 and +4), and cyclosporine from day +5. Median age was 56 years (range, 22 to 70 years); 25 (73.5%) patients were in first complete remission (CR1), 5 (14.7%) were in second complete remission (CR2), and 8 (23.5%) had active disease. Median time to neutrophil engraftment was 16 days (range, 8 to 43 days). At day +100, the cumulative incidence of acute GVHD of any grade, and grades III to IV was 38.3% and 5.2%, respectively. Mild chronic GVHD was seen in 15.5%. Cytomegalovirus (CMV) reactivation occurred in 37 (74%) cases and CMV disease occurred in 4 (11.5%) cases. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) reactivation occurred in 21 (61.8%) patients. The incidence of histologically confirmed post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) was 5.8%. Four patients received rituximab. There were no CMV, EBV, or PTLD-related deaths. Six-month and 1-year overall survival (OS), cumulative incidence of relapse (CIR), and nonrelapse mortality (NRM) were 73.9%, 10.2%, and 19.4%, respectively, and 48.1%, 16% and 38.2%, respectively. Infection was the most common cause of death (18%). Unmanipulated haploidentical PBSC transplantation following RIC with ATG, PTCy, and cyclosporine as a GVHD prevention strategy results in low rates of acute and chronic GVHD.

Keywords: Antithymocyte globulin; Dual T cell suppression; Haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; Post-transplant cyclophosphamide.

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HaploHSCT conditioning and post-transplant immunosuppressive regimen. D indicates day.
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OS of 50 patients receiving haploidentical stem cell transplants for hematological malignancies. CI indicates confidence interval.
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CIR.
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Cumulative incidence of acute GVHD grade III to IV.
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