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Journal articles on the topic "Allo-HCT"
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Bashir, Qaiser, Peter Thall, Chitra Hosing, Floralyn L. Mendoza, Eric Han, Michael Wang, Jatin Shah, et al. "Salvage Autologous or Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation After the Failure of First Autograft in Patients with Multiple Myeloma." Blood 114, no. 22 (November 20, 2009): 1186. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood.v114.22.1186.1186.
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Abstract Abstract 1186 Poster Board I-208 Background: Almost all patients with multiple myeloma (MM) who receive autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (auto HCT) eventually relapse. The treatment options for these patients include novel agents or second (salvage) auto or allogeneic (allo) HCT. Use of reduced intensity conditioning (RIC) has significantly reduced the transplant-related mortality (TRM) with allo HCT. We evaluated the outcomes of patients who received salvage auto or allo HCT for relapsed MM. Methods: Sixty-two patients (24 females and 38 males), with a median age of 55 years (range: 37-73) received a salvage auto HCT between January 1992 and December 2008, whereas 44 patients (19 females and 25 males), with a median age of 51 years (range 32-65) received salvage allo HCT (12 unrelated and 32 related donor) between October 1988 and December 2006. Among 12 patients with unrelated allo HCT, ten were matched at 10/10 HLA loci, while two patients were mismatched at 1 or 2 loci, respectively. Among 32 patients with related donor allo HCT, 29 matched at 10/10 loci, while 3 patients had one or two antigen mismatches. In the allo HCT group eight patients received myeloablative regimens (MA), while thirty six patients received RIC regimens. MA regimens were fludarabine + melphalan 180 mg/m2 in 4 patients, busulfan + cyclophosphamide in 2 patients, busulfan + melphalan in one patient and TBI-based in another patient. RIC regimens were fludarabine + melphalan ≤140 mg/m2 in 34 patients and cyclophosphamide + fludarabine in 2 patients. Results: Median follow-up for both auto and allo HCT patients was 24 months. Median prior treatment regimens in auto and allo HCT patients were 4 (2-16) and 5 (2-10), respectively. Overall response rates in evaluable patients in auto HCT and allo HCT were 63% and 75%, respectively. Cumulative incidence of grade II-IV acute GVHD was 27% and limited or extensive chronic GVHD was 43% in allo HCT group. One-hundred day TRM in auto HCT and allo HCT groups was 3% and 9%, respectively. Most common causes of nonrelapse mortality were infections (12%) in auto, and acute or chronic GVHD (24%) in allo HCT group. Median progression free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) for auto HCT were 15.5 and 43.3 months, and for allo HCT were 6.9 and 14 months, respectively. Patients receiving MA regimens had significantly shorter PFS and OS than patients receiving RIC regimens. Conclusions: Both second auto and allo HCT are feasible for salvage therapy in patients with advanced MM, who had relapsed after an auto HCT. Disease progression remains the major cause of treatment failure. RIC regimens have improved the outcome of allo HCT. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.
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Orti, Guillermo, Jaime Sanz, Arancha Bermudez, Dolores Caballero, Carmen Martinez, Jordi Sierra, José R. Cabrera Marin, et al. "Outcome of Second Allogeneic SCT Following Relapse of Hematological Malignancies After a First Allogeneic SCT." Blood 118, no. 21 (November 18, 2011): 3056. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood.v118.21.3056.3056.
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Abstract Abstract 3056 Background: Disease relapse is the most frequent cause of treatment failure following allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT), and carries a very poor prognosis. A second allo-HCT may be the only curative option for the majority of these patients. Patient and transplant factors that may associate with the outcome of a second allo-HCT are required for clinical-decision making in such high-risk patients. Aims and Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of patients receiving a second allo-HCT for disease relapse after a prior allo-HCT reported by GETH centres. Our aim is to analyze our experience in this setting, and to identify factors associated with patient outcome. Results: We present data on 189 patients who underwent a second allo-HCT for disease relapse in Spain up to December 2010 (median year 2004), with a median follow-up for survivors of 54 months (3–224): median age 35 years (range 4–69); 113 male (60%); initial diagnosis AML 77, ALL 45, MDS/MPD 28, CML 23, lymphoprolipherative disorder 12, and others 4. Seventy-five (40%) received myeloablative conditioning. Donors for second allo-HCT were related in 158 cases (84%), and in 33 cases (17%) were new donors different from the donors in the previous allo-HCT. Only 23 cases (12%) had T-cell depletion. Median time from the first to the second allo-HCT was 19 months (1–151). The cumulative incidence of non-relapse mortality was 37%. Median overall survival (OS) was 297 days, with an OS at 1, 3 and 5 years of 39%, 28% and 25%, respectively. Type of donor (related versus unrelated and new donor versus same donor) and type of conditioning (myeloablative versus non-myeloablative) had no association with patient outcome. However, OS was significantly poorer in patients who underwent second allo-HCT in active relapse or progression than in those with low disease burden (complete response, good partial response, or chronic phase; 29% vs 52% at 1 year, 21% vs 39% at 3 years, 17% vs 35% at 3 years, respectively; p=0.001). Also, patients with early relapse after the first allo-HCT who underwent a second allo-HCT <1 year after first HCT also had a poorer OS than those with a later relapse and second allo-HCT (13% vs 53% at 1 year, 7% vs 40% at 3 years, and 5% vs 35% at 5 years, respectively; p<0.001). The impact of these two clinical factors in the outcome remained independent in the multivariate analysis (disease status at second allo-HCT: HR 1.8, 95% CI 1.2–2.6, p=0.002; time to second allo-HCT: HR 3.2, 95% CI 2.2–4.6, p<0.001). Time to second allo-HCT and disease status also have an independent association with the probability of progression free survival in this series (p <0.001 and p =0.001, respectively). In fact, while patients with late relapse who received a second allo-HCT in good response had a very encouraging probability of OS of 49% at 5 years, patients who had an early relapse and required a second allo-HCT in less than 1 year from their first allo-HCT and also had active disease at the time of second allo-HCT had very poor OS of only 8% at 1 year and no one survived beyond 3 years after the second allo-HCT. Conclusions: 25% of patients who relapse after an allo-HCT can achieve long-term survival of 5 or more years following a second allo-HCT. Donor type does not appear to influence the outcome. On the contrary, our data suggest that disease status at HCT and time to relapse between first and second HCT are two significant prognostic factors with independent impact on patient outcome. The indication of a second allo-HCT in this context should be thoroughly discussed for individual cases, in particular for patients with early relapse and refractory disease arriving to second allo-HCT, for whom the probability of prolonged survival is extremely low. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.
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Gergis, Usama, Nandita Khera, Marie Louise Edwards, Yan Song, Rochelle Sun, Ronit Simantov, Smitha Sivaraman, Rocio Manghani, and James Signorovitch. "Abstract 6 Projected Impact of Omidubicel on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Access and Outcomes for Patients with Hematologic Malignancies in the U.S." Stem Cells Translational Medicine 11, Supplement_1 (September 1, 2022): S8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/stcltm/szac057.006.
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Abstract Introduction Patients with hematologic malignancies (HM) who are eligible for allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (allo-HCT) often lack an HLA-matched related donor (MRD) and rely on unrelated donors for a matched or mismatched unrelated donor (MUD or MMUD) or on umbilical cord blood (UCB). It is well known that racial minorities are underrepresented in donor registries. Objective Omidubicel, an advanced cell therapy for allo-HCT, demonstrated superior hematopoietic recovery and clinical outcomes compared with standard UCB (NCT02730299). We hypothesized the impact of omidubicel access on racial and ethnic health disparities in a projection model. Methods A model was developed to project allo-HCT access and clinical outcomes in a hypothetical population of 10,000 allo-HCT-eligible US patients with HM lacking an HLA-MRD. Outcomes associated with omidubicel, MUD, MMUD, haploidentical or UCB HCT, or no transplant were assessed by race/ethnic group. Model inputs, including clinical outcomes for each HCT type, were drawn from clinical trials, public CIBMTR and US Department of Health and Human Services data, and published studies. Increasing omidubicel use was modeled, with proportional reductions in other allo-HCT types or no transplant. Results In a modeled population of 10,000 patients, 5,956 (60%) received allo-HCT utilizing current donor sources (MUD, MMUD, haploidentical, UCB) with no omidubicel (status quo). While 80% of white patients underwent allo-HCT, only 40% of Hispanic, 32% of Asian, and 22% of Black patients underwent allo-HCT. Mean time from selecting graft to HCT was 11.5 weeks. Including those not transplanted, 1-year OS was 62% overall, ranging from 56% (Black) to 65% (White). Modeled increases in omidubicel use in eligible patients were associated with higher proportions of patients undergoing allo-HCT, decreased time to HCT, and increased 1-year OS. Improvements were greatest among racial minorities. Assuming 20% omidubicel use, the proportion of patients receiving allo-HCT increased by 71% in Black, 43% in Asian, 30% in Hispanic, and 5% in White patients. Modeled time to allo-HCT improved as well. Discussion Access to omidubicel is projected to decrease time to allo-HCT, improve outcomes overall, with greatest improvements among racial and ethnic groups underserved by the status quo, thus helping to reduce racial disparities and improving health equity in allo-HCT.
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Fenske, Timothy S., Mei-Jie Zhang, Jeanette Carreras, Ernesto Ayala, Linda J. Burns, Amanda Cashen, Luciano J. Costa, et al. "Autologous or Reduced-Intensity Conditioning Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Chemotherapy-Sensitive Mantle-Cell Lymphoma: Analysis of Transplantation Timing and Modality." Journal of Clinical Oncology 32, no. 4 (February 1, 2014): 273–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2013.49.2454.
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Purpose To examine the outcomes of patients with chemotherapy-sensitive mantle-cell lymphoma (MCL) following a first hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HCT), comparing outcomes with autologous (auto) versus reduced-intensity conditioning allogeneic (RIC allo) HCT and with transplantation applied at different times in the disease course. Patients and Methods In all, 519 patients who received transplantations between 1996 and 2007 and were reported to the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research were analyzed. The early transplantation cohort was defined as those patients in first partial or complete remission with no more than two lines of chemotherapy. The late transplantation cohort was defined as all the remaining patients. Results Auto-HCT and RIC allo-HCT resulted in similar overall survival from transplantation for both the early (at 5 years: 61% auto-HCT v 62% RIC allo-HCT; P = .951) and late cohorts (at 5 years: 44% auto-HCT v 31% RIC allo-HCT; P = .202). In both early and late transplantation cohorts, progression/relapse was lower and nonrelapse mortality was higher in the allo-HCT group. Overall survival and progression-free survival were highest in patients who underwent auto-HCT in first complete response. Multivariate analysis of survival from diagnosis identified a survival benefit favoring early HCT for both auto-HCT and RIC allo-HCT. Conclusion For patients with chemotherapy-sensitive MCL, the optimal timing for HCT is early in the disease course. Outcomes are particularly favorable for patients undergoing auto-HCT in first complete remission. For those unable to achieve complete remission after two lines of chemotherapy or those with relapsed disease, either auto-HCT or RIC allo-HCT may be effective, although the chance for long-term remission and survival is lower.
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Kurosawa, Saiko, Takuhiro Yamaguchi, Shuichi Miyawaki, Naoyuki Uchida, Heiwa Kanamori, Kensuke Usuki, Takuya Yamashita, et al. "A Markov decision analysis of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation versus chemotherapy in patients with acute myeloid leukemia in first remission." Blood 117, no. 7 (February 17, 2011): 2113–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood-2010-05-285502.
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Abstract Various prospective trials have been performed to assess the roles of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) and chemotherapy in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in first complete remission (CR1). However, the results have not always been consistent, and there has been a limited evaluation of quality of life (QOL) in these postremission strategies. We performed a Markov decision analysis that enabled us to compare survival outcomes with a QOL evaluation using a database of 2029 adult AML patients who achieved CR1. The Markov decision model compared 2 strategies: allo-HCT or chemotherapy in CR1. Patients who had intermediate- or unfavorable-risk AML had a longer life expectancy when they received allo-HCT in CR1 than patients treated with chemotherapy alone. Likewise, patients who had a suitable related donor who received allo-HCT in CR1 had a longer life expectancy. The life expectancy was shortened to a greater degree by adjustment for QOL in the allo-HCT group. Nevertheless, QOL-adjusted life expectancies in most of the subgroups remained longer in the allo-HCT group than in the chemotherapy group. Our results showed that older patients with a related donor and younger patients with unfavorable cytogenetics benefited the most from allo-HCT in CR1.
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Reichenbach, Dawn K., Benjamin M. Matta, Xiaoli Zhang, Brent Koehn, Lisa Mathews, Michelle J. Smith, Colby J. Feser, Robert Zeiser, Heth Roderick Turnquist, and Bruce R. Blazar. "IL-33 mediated expansion of host ST2+ Treg prior to allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation decreases macrophage and effector T cell activation reducing acute GVHD." Journal of Immunology 196, no. 1_Supplement (May 1, 2016): 140.33. http://dx.doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.196.supp.140.33.
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Abstract Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is the leading complication and cause of mortality after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT). Recently, we reported that IL-33 released from tissue damaged during allo-HCT conditioning mediates pro-inflammatory responses by Teffector cells resulting in greater acute GVHD lethality and clinical symptoms in mice. However, IL-33 is a pleiotropic cytokine that mediates both pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory responses. We hypothesized that the beneficial effects mediated by IL-33 could be harnessed if IL-33 was present prior to inflammatory mediators released during conditioning. Here, we demonstrate that exogenous IL-33 given peri allo-HCT (days −10 to 4) to recipients of MHC-disparate allo-HCT asserts its immunoregulatory properties reduced GVHD lethality and clinical symptoms compared to non-treated controls. IL-33 treatment peri allo-HCT resulted in the expansion of recipient Treg and suppressive myeloid cells that persisted post irradiation. Host Treg depletion in C57Bl/6 FoxP3-DTR mice by diphtheria toxin given concurrently with peri allo-HCT IL-33 treatment accelerated GVHD symptoms and lethality compared to peri allo-HCT IL-33 treatment alone, demonstrating that host Treg were necessary for GVHD protection. Transfer of Treg deficient in ST2, the IL-33 receptor, afforded less GVHD protection than wild-type Treg. ST2+ Treg controlled macrophage activation and prevented accumulation of Teffector cells in GVHD target tissue. Thus, we demonstrate that peri allo-HCT IL-33 expanded and activated host Treg have potential as a therapeutic modality to prevent and treat GVHD.
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Tyszka, Martyna, Dominika Maciejewska-Markiewicz, Jarosław Biliński, Arkadiusz Lubas, Ewa Stachowska, and Grzegorz W. Basak. "Increased Intestinal Permeability and Stool Zonulin, Calprotectin and Beta-Defensin-2 Concentrations in Allogenic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Recipients." International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23, no. 24 (December 15, 2022): 15962. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms232415962.
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Significant progress has been made in understanding the connection between intestinal barrier function and allogenic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) recipients’ outcomes. The purpose of this study was to further evaluate gut barrier permeability and other potential intestinal barrier disruption markers in the allo-HCT setting. Fifty-one patients were enrolled in the study. Intestinal permeability was assessed with the sugar absorption test and faecal concentrations of the zonulin, calprotectin and beta-defensin-2 levels in the peri-transplantation period. Most patients undergoing allo-HCT in our department had a disrupted intestinal barrier at the baseline, which was associated with older age and higher Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation-specific Comorbidity Index (HCT-CI). Regardless of this, we observed a further increase in gut barrier permeability after allo-HCT in most patients. However, there was no association between permeability assay and other markers (zonulin, calprotectin and beta-defensin-2). Patients with acute GVHD had significantly higher median calprotectin concentrations after allo-HCT compared with the patients without this complication. Our findings indicate that gut barrier damage develops prior to allo-HCT with progression after the procedure and precedes further complications, but did not prove other markers to be useful surrogates of intestinal permeability.
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Hashimoto, Daigo, Andrew Chow, Melanie Greter, Yvonne Saenger, Wing-Hong Kwan, Marylene Leboeuf, Florent Ginhoux, et al. "Pretransplant CSF-1 therapy expands recipient macrophages and ameliorates GVHD after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation." Journal of Experimental Medicine 208, no. 5 (May 2, 2011): 1069–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1084/jem.20101709.
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Acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) results from the attack of host tissues by donor allogeneic T cells and is the most serious limitation of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT). Host antigen-presenting cells are thought to control the priming of alloreactive T cells and the induction of acute GVHD after allo-HCT. However, whereas the role of host DC in GVHD has been established, the contribution of host macrophages to GVHD has not been clearly addressed. We show that, in contrast to DC, reducing of the host macrophage pool in recipient mice increased donor T cell expansion and aggravated GVHD mortality after allo-HCT. We also show that host macrophages that persist after allo-HCT engulf donor allogeneic T cells and inhibit their proliferation. Conversely, administration of the cytokine CSF-1 before transplant expanded the host macrophage pool, reduced donor T cell expansion, and improved GVHD morbidity and mortality after allo-HCT. This study establishes the unexpected key role of host macrophages in inhibiting GVHD and identifies CSF-1 as a potential prophylactic therapy to limit acute GVHD after allo-HCT in the clinic.
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Rocha, Vanderson, Giancarlo Fatobene, and Dietger Niederwieser. "Increasing access to allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant: an international perspective." Hematology 2021, no. 1 (December 10, 2021): 264–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/hematology.2021000258.
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Abstract Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) is a highly complex, costly procedure for patients with oncologic, hematologic, genetic, and immunologic diseases. Demographics and socioeconomic status as well as donor availability and type of health care system are important factors that influence access to and outcomes following allo-HCT. The last decade has seen an increase in the numbers of allo-HCTs and teams all over the world, with no signs of saturation. More than 80 000 procedures are being performed annually, with 1 million allo-HCTs estimated to take place by the end of 2024. Many factors have contributed to this, including increased numbers of eligible patients (older adults with or without comorbidities) and available donors (unrelated and haploidentical), improved supportive care, and decreased early and late post-HCT mortalities. This increase is also directly linked to macro- and microeconomic indicators that affect health care both regionally and globally. Despite this global increase in the number of allo-HCTs and transplant centers, there is an enormous need for increased access to and improved outcomes following allo-HCT in resource-constrained countries. The reduction of poverty, global economic changes, greater access to information, exchange of technologies, and use of artificial intelligence, mobile health, and telehealth are certainly creating unprecedented opportunities to establish collaborations and share experiences and thus increase patient access to allo-HCT. A specific research agenda to address issues of allo-HCT in resource-constrained settings is urgently warranted.
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Delgado, Julio, Donald W. Milligan, and Peter Dreger. "Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation for chronic lymphocytic leukemia: ready for prime time?" Blood 114, no. 13 (September 24, 2009): 2581–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood-2009-05-206821.
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AbstractThe development of reduced intensity conditioning regimens has increased the number of patients diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia that are referred for allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT). However, given the toxicity of allo-HCT, it should only be offered to eligible patients whose life expectancy is significantly reduced by the disease. Accordingly, the European Group of Blood and Marrow Transplantation has recently identified those patients in whom allo-HCT could be a reasonable therapeutic approach. In this review, we have evaluated the outcome of chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients undergoing allo-HCT, either after conventional or reduced intensity conditioning regimens, in the context of current nontransplantation strategies. We have also analyzed the most important predisposing factors that might interfere with the procedure as well as posttransplantation complications that are particularly common in these patients. Finally, we have addressed the most relevant factors when deciding what patients should be considered for allo-HCT and the timing of the procedure.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Allo-HCT"
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GAMBACORTA, VALENTINA. "Novel Insights into the Immunobiology of Leukemia Relapse after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/259336.
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Il numero di pazienti affetti da leucemia mieloide acuta (LMA) trattati con trapianto di cellule ematopoietiche allogeniche (TCE-allo) è in costante aumento. L'efficacia terapeutica di questa procedura si basa principalmente sul trasferimento dal donatore al paziente di cellule immunitarie, in grado di riconoscere ed eliminare le cellule tumorali residue. Tuttavia, fino al 50% dei pazienti trapiantati con LMA va incontro a recidiva e la prognosi di questi pazienti rimane estremamente negativa. Pertanto, lo scopo del mio lavoro di tesi era quello di migliorare la comprensione attuale dell'immunobiologia della recidiva post-trapianto, studiando i) come le terapie e la leucemia stessa influenzano la ricostituzione immunitaria, ii) come perfezionare il rilevamento della ricomparsa della leucemia nella fase di malattia minima residua (MMR) e iii) come scoprire i meccanismi molecolari alla base dell’evasione della leucemia dal sistema immune.
In particolare, presenterò per la prima volta i risultati di uno studio prospettico volto a valutare l'utilità clinica di monitorare il chimerismo specifico del paziente sul sangue periferico, anziché sul midollo osseo attualmente utilizzato, impiegando la PCR quantitativa (PCRq) per la diagnosi precoce delle recidive di leucemia dopo trapianto.
In seguito, saranno presentati i risultati di due studi sulla dinamica della ricostituzione delle cellule NK e T dopo il TCE-allo. Entrambi gli studi mirano a comprendere i determinanti dell'insufficienza del sistema immunitario del donatore nel controllo della recidiva della malattia LMA con la possibilità di utilizzare le caratteristiche identificate come biomarcatori per prevedere la recidiva post-trapianto.
Nelle ultime sezioni presenterò dati sia pubblicati che non pubblicati sui meccanismi biologici della recidiva della malattia post-trapianto, riferendo in che modo questa conoscenza possa essere facilmente tradotta in nuove opzioni terapeutiche per combattere la recidiva della malattia.
In queste sezioni sono incluse due recensioni che ho scritto di recente, focalizzate, rispettivamente, sull'immunobiologia della recidiva post-trapianto e sulle attuali terapie epigenetiche all’avanguardia per la LMA e i loro effetti sul sistema immunitario.The number of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients cured through allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) is constantly increasing. The therapeutic effectiveness of this procedure mainly relies on the transfer from the donor to the patient of immune cells, capable of recognizing and eliminating residual tumor cells. Still, up to 50% of transplanted AML patients will eventually relapse, and the prognosis of these patients remains extremely poor. Thus, aim of my thesis work was to improve current understanding on the immunobiology of post-transplantation relapse, by investigating i) how therapies and leukemia itself affect immune reconstitution, ii) how to refine detection of leukemia reappearance at the stage minimal residual disease (MRD), and iii) how to uncover the molecular mechanisms at the basis of leukemia immune evasion. In particular, I will first present the results of a prospective study aiming at evaluating the clinical utility of monitoring patient-specific chimerism on peripheral blood, instead of the currently used bone marrow specimens, employing quantitative PCR (qPCR) for the early detection of leukemia relapses after transplantation. Will next present the results of two studies on the dynamics of recovery of NK and T cells after allo-HCT. Both studies aim at understanding the determinants of donor immune system failure in controlling AML disease recurrence with the potential implications of using the identified features as biomarkers to predict post-transplantation relapse. In the last sections I will present both published and unpublished data on the biological mechanisms underlying post-transplantation disease relapse, reporting how this knowledge can be easily translated in novel therapeutic rationales to combat disease recurrence. Included in these sections are two recent reviews I authored, focused, respectively, on the immunobiology of post-transplantation relapse, and on current state-of-the art epigenetic therapies for AML and their effects on the immune system.
Book chapters on the topic "Allo-HCT"
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Gauthier, Jordan. "Post-CAR-T Cell Therapy (Consolidation and Relapse): Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia." In The EBMT/EHA CAR-T Cell Handbook, 165–68. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94353-0_32.
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AbstractRole of consolidative allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) for B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (B-ALL) patients in minimal residual disease-negative (MRD) complete remission (CR) after CD19 CAR-T cell therapy.
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Einsele, Hermann, and Ibrahim Yakoub-Agha. "Management of Other Toxicities." In The EBMT/EHA CAR-T Cell Handbook, 157–60. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94353-0_30.
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AbstractSecondary haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (sHLH) or macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) is a life-threatening hyperinflammatory syndrome that can occur in patients with severe infections, e.g., COVID-19 infection, malignancy or autoimmune diseases. It is also a rare complication of allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT), independent of the underlying trigger mechanism or underlying disorders associated with high mortality. There have been increasing reports of sHLH/MAS occurrence following CAR-T cell therapy, but its differentiation from cytokine release syndrome (CRS) is often difficult (Sandler et al. 2020).
Conference papers on the topic "Allo-HCT"
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van den Heuvel, Robert. "Should we use intensive chemotherapy prior to allo-HCT in relapsed/refractory AML?" In 64th ASH Annual Meeting, edited by Gert Ossenkoppele. Baarn, the Netherlands: Medicom Medical Publishers, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.55788/6deef4d2.
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