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Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2000;6(5A):576-91.
Conditional and unconditional estimation of multidimensional quality of life after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a longitudinal follow-up of 415 patients.
Bush NE, Donaldson GW, Haberman MH, Dacanay R, Sullivan KM.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109-1024, USA. nbushcrc.org
Emerging literature suggests that quality of life (QOL) after bone marrow transplantation is relatively good but is accompanied in some patients by a variety of residual difficulties. The studies supporting this finding, however, have been somewhat limited in scale, scope, design, and analysis. We comprehensively measured changes in multidimensional QOL in a 4-year longitudinal follow-up of 415 adult patients who received hematopoietic stem cell transplants at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Questionnaire packets containing 271 items were mailed annually posttransplantation to patients' homes. Standard methods of analysis yielded conditional estimates depending on compliance and survival, whereas new, likelihood-based methods generated unconditional estimates applicable to the full intent-to-treat population. Typical QOL levels generally remained high over the entire study period. Most QOL functioning significantly improved over 4 years, with the remainder showing no important decrement. Although isolated problem areas, such as sexual dissatisfaction, did emerge, the level of dysfunction for most physical and psychological scales remained below 30% of scale maxima. Broadly similar results were obtained for conditional estimation, which may contain an optimistic bias, and for unconditional estimation, which largely avoids the bias. Because concurrence was obtained between the 2 types of estimation, we conclude that most patients really do experience good levels of QOL in the 4 years after transplantation. Although some problems can be anticipated, typical patients can look forward to a QOL after transplantation that is broadly comparable to that of the normal population.
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Blood. 2003 May 15;101(10):4195-200. Epub 2003 Jan 16.
Transfusion-transmitted cytomegalovirus infection after receipt of leukoreduced blood products.
Nichols WG, Price TH, Gooley T, Corey L, Boeckh M.
Program in Infectious Diseases and Biostatistics, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109-1024, USA. gnicholhcrc.org
Leukoreduced blood products are reportedly comparable to cytomegalovirus (CMV)-seronegative products for the prevention of transfusion-transmitted CMV (TT-CMV) infection after stem cell (SC) transplantation. To determine if the incidence of TT-CMV was affected by the increasing use of leukoreduced blood products, we followed a prospective cohort of 807 CMV-seronegative SC transplant (SCT) recipients who underwent weekly surveillance using the pp65 antigenemia assay. The incidence of TT-CMV for 2 time periods was recorded: Period 1 (5/94-11/96), when only CMV-seronegative and/or filtered blood products were provided, and period 2 (12/96-2/00), when leukocyte-reduced platelets obtained by apheresis without filtration were also used. The incidence of TT-CMV was higher during period 2 (18/447, 4%) than period 1 (6/360, 1.7%) (P <.05); this was correlated with higher utilization of both filtered and apheresed products from CMV-positive donors in period 2. Multivariable analysis identified filtered red blood cell (RBC) units (but not apheresis platelet products) from CMV-positive donors as the primary predictor of TT-CMV: each additional filtered RBC unit was associated with a 32% increase in the odds for TT-CMV (95% confidence interval [CI]: 8%-61%, P =.006). Pre-emptive therapy with ganciclovir after detection of antigenemia prevented all but one case of CMV disease prior to day 100. CMV-seronegative products may thus be superior to leukoreduced products (particularly filtered RBCs) for the prevention of TT-CMV. In an era of "universal leukoreduction," the abandonment of CMV-seronegative inventories appears premature, particularly among populations at high risk of CMV disease that do not receive active surveillance.
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Eur J Haematol. 2002 Oct;69(4):200-4.
Autologous stem-cell transplantation for patients with acute myeloid leukemia aged over 60 yr.
Ferrara F, Venditti A, Carellajr AM, Cantore N, Buccisano F, Tamburini A, Palmieri S, Mele G, Annunziata M, Greco MM, Amadori S.
Divisione di Ematologia, A.O.R.N. A.Cardarelli, Via Niccolo Piccinni 6, 80126 Naples, Italy. felicettoferraratamail.com
OBJECTIVES: Preliminary reports have suggested that autologous stem-cell transplantation (ASCT) is feasible in elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The objective of this study was to describe the disease characteristics and treatment results from a series of 22 elderly AML patients undergoing ASCT. METHODS: The median age was 64 yr (range 61-71). Twenty patients were in first complete remission (CR1), two in CR2, and all were in performance status 0-1. The median interval between CR achievement and ACST was 3 months (range 2-5). In 20 cases peripheral blood stem cells were infused, in two bone marrow. RESULTS: All patients had a successful engrafment. One patient (5%) died from transplant-related complications. The median number of days to granulocytes > 500 mm-3 and platelets > 20 000 mm-3 was 11(range 9-15) and 13 (range 9-20), respectively. Non-hematologic toxicity included WHO grade III-IV stomatitis in 32% patients and grade IV nausea and vomiting in one (4.5%). Seven patients had fever of unknown origin, while in 14 a documented infection was diagnosed. Median duration of hospitalization was 31 d (range 16-60). CONCLUSIONS: After a median follow-up of 12 months from ASCT, nine patients are alive in continuous CR and 13 died from AML relapse. Median survival from diagnosis and disease-free survival (DFS) was 19 and 14 months, respectively. Our data show that ASCT with a standard conditioning regimen is feasible in AML patients aged more than 60 yr. Toxicity and hemopoietic recovery do not substantially differ from those observed in young adults. DFS and overall survival (OS) duration are encouraging, but a longer follow up is needed on a larger series of patients.
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Blood. 2000 Nov 15;96(10):3385-91.
Lentivirus-based vectors transduce mouse hematopoietic stem cells with similar efficiency to moloney murine leukemia virus-based vectors.
Barrette S, Douglas JL, Seidel NE, Bodine DM.
Hematopoiesis Section, Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
The low levels of transduction of human hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) with Moloney murine leukemia virus (MLV) vectors have been an obstacle to gene therapy for hematopoietic diseases. It has been demonstrated that lentivirus vectors are more efficient than MLV vectors at transducing nondividing cell lines as well as human CD34(+) cells and severe combined immunodeficiency disease repopulating cells. We compared transduction of cell lines and Lin(-) bone marrow cells, using a vesicular stomatitis virus G (VSV-G)-pseudotyped lentivirus or MLV vectors carrying a green fluorescent protein marker gene. As predicted, the lentivirus vector was more efficient at transducing mouse and human growth-inhibited cell lines. The transduction of mouse HSC by lentivirus vectors was compared directly to MLV vectors in a co-transduction assay. In this assay, transduction by ecotropic MLV is a positive internal control for downstream steps in retrovirus transduction, including cell division. Both the VSV-G lentivirus and MLV vectors transduced mouse HSCs maintained in cytokine-free medium at very low frequency, as did the ecotropic control. The lentivirus vector and the MLV vector were equally efficient at transducing bone marrow HSCs cultured in interleukin 3 (IL-3), IL-6, and stem cell factor for 96 hours. In conclusion, although lentivirus vectors are able to transduce growth-inhibited cell lines, the cell cycle status of HSCs render them resistant to lentivirus-mediated transduction, and it is hypothesized that entry into cycle, not necessarily division, may be a requirement for efficient lentivirus-mediated transduction.
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Blood. 2000 Nov 15;96(10):3392-8.
High-level transgene expression in human hematopoietic progenitors and differentiated blood lineages after transduction with improved lentiviral vectors.
Salmon P, Kindler V, Ducrey O, Chapuis B, Zubler RH, Trono D.
Department of Genetics and Microbiology and Division of Hematology, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.
Recent experiments point to the great value of lentiviral vectors for the transduction of human hematopoietic stem cells (hHSCs). Vectors used so far, however, have been poorly satisfying in terms of either biosafety or efficiency of transgene expression. Herein is described the results obtained with human immunodeficiency virus-based vectors optimized in both of these aspects. It is thus shown that vectors containing the EF1alpha and, to a lesser extent, the phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) promoter, govern high-level gene expression in human hematopoietic progenitors as well as derived hematopoietic lineages of therapeutic relevance, such as erythrocytes, granulocytes, monocytes, dendritic cells, and megakaryocytes. EF1alpha promoter-containing lentiviral vectors can also induce strong transgene expression in primary T lymphocytes isolated from peripheral blood. A self-inactivating design did not affect the performance of EF1alpha promoter-based vectors but significantly reduced expression from the PGK promoter. This negative effect could nevertheless be largely rescued by inserting the post-transcriptional regulatory element of woodchuck hepatitis virus upstream of the vector 3' long terminal repeat. These results have important practical implications for the genetic treatment of lymphohematologic disorders as well as for the study of hematopoiesis via the lentivector-mediated modification of hHSCs.
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