Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for sickle cell anaemia: the first 50 patients transplanted in Belgium (original) (raw)

Sickle-Cell Disease

Bone Marrow Transplantation volume 22, pages 1–6 (1998)Cite this article

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Fifty patients affected by sickle cell anaemia underwent transplantation of HLA-identical haematopoietic stem cells (bone marrow, 48; cord blood, 2). Two groups of patients were considered for transplantation. Group 1 included 36 permanent residents of a European country who, retrospectively, met the inclusion criteria accepted at a consensus conference held in Seattle in 1990, wherein children were selected because they already had evidence of a morbid course. Group 2 included 14 patients who were transplanted earlier, had not received more than three blood transfusions and were transplanted because they had decided to return to their country of origin. Kaplan–Meier estimates of overall survival, event-free survival and disease-free survival at 11 years of the whole grafted population are 93, 82 and 85%, respectively. In group 1, overall survival, EFS and DFS were 88, 76 and 80% and in group 2, 100, 93 and 93%, respectively. Clinical manifestations of the disease, as well as disease associated haemolytic anaemia, disappeared in all successfully treated patients. Recovery of spleen function was present in seven out of 10 evaluated patients. Adverse events (death, absence of engraftment, mixed chimerism and relapse) occurred more frequently in group 1 than in group 2 (25% vs 7%, P < 0.001). acute graft-versus-host disease (gvhd) was present in 20 patients (grade i or ii, 19; grade iii, 1), chronic gvhd in 10 (limited, 7; extensive, 3). one patient developed an acute myeloid leukaemia. gonadal dysfunction was present in all patients (six boys and eight girls) transplanted close to or after puberty, although transient in one adolescent girl.

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  1. Department of Paediatric Haematology and Haematology, University of Louvain, St Luc Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
    C Vermylen, G Cornu, B Brichard, J Ninane, A Ferrant, A Zenebergh & P Maes
  2. Department of Paediatric Haematology, University of Brussels, Hopital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola, Brussels, Belgium
    A Ferster & E Sariban
  3. Department of Paediatric Haematology, University Hospital, Gent, Belgium
    C Dhooge & Y Benoit
  4. Department of Haematology, University Hospital, Liège, Belgium
    Y Beguin & MF Dresse

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Vermylen, C., Cornu, G., Ferster, A. et al. Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for sickle cell anaemia: the first 50 patients transplanted in Belgium.Bone Marrow Transplant 22, 1–6 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bmt.1701291

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