ALLOGENEIC TRANSPLANTATION FOR CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA

<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><p>Even if Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) often has an indolent behavio...

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Main Authors: Patrizia Chiusolo, Michela Tarnani, Luca Laurenti, Federica Sorà, Simona Sica
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Published: PAGEPress Publications 2010-05-01
Series:Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases
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author Patrizia Chiusolo
Michela Tarnani
Luca Laurenti
Federica Sorà
Simona Sica
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Michela Tarnani
Luca Laurenti
Federica Sorà
Simona Sica
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description <span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><p>Even if Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) often has an indolent behavior with good responsiveness to cytoreductive treatment, about 20% of the patients, so called "poor-risk" patients, show an aggressive course and die within a few years despite early intensive therapies. Criteria for poor-risk disease according to the European Bone Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) CLL Transplant Consensus are: purine analogue refractoriness, early relapse after purine analogue combination therapy, CLL with p53 lesion requiring treatment.</p><p>Allogeneic transplant has potential curative role in CLL, however burden with very  high transplant related mortality (TRM) rates of 38-50%:</p><p>A major advance in reducing the short-term morbidity and mortality of allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) has been the introduction of non-myeloablative or reduced intensity conditioning (RIC) regimens to allow engraftment of allogeneic stem cells. There is no doubt that the crucial therapeutic principle of allo-SCT in CLL is graft versus leukemia (GVL) activity.</p><p>The major complications of allogeneic SCT in CLL are: chronic graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD) affecting quality of life, high graft rejection and infection rates rates correlated with preexisting immunosuppression. Disease relapse remains the major cause of failure after RIC allo-HCT in CLL patients.</p><p>Sensitive minimal residual disease (MRD) quantification has strong prognostic impact after transplant. <strong></strong></p></span></span></span><p> </p>
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spelling doaj-art-98eb8806e53341dd80a9efdf48fb36af2025-01-02T00:23:05ZengPAGEPress PublicationsMediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases2035-30062010-05-0122e2010026e2010026ALLOGENEIC TRANSPLANTATION FOR CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIAPatrizia ChiusoloMichela TarnaniLuca LaurentiFederica SoràSimona Sica<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><p>Even if Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) often has an indolent behavior with good responsiveness to cytoreductive treatment, about 20% of the patients, so called "poor-risk" patients, show an aggressive course and die within a few years despite early intensive therapies. Criteria for poor-risk disease according to the European Bone Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) CLL Transplant Consensus are: purine analogue refractoriness, early relapse after purine analogue combination therapy, CLL with p53 lesion requiring treatment.</p><p>Allogeneic transplant has potential curative role in CLL, however burden with very  high transplant related mortality (TRM) rates of 38-50%:</p><p>A major advance in reducing the short-term morbidity and mortality of allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) has been the introduction of non-myeloablative or reduced intensity conditioning (RIC) regimens to allow engraftment of allogeneic stem cells. There is no doubt that the crucial therapeutic principle of allo-SCT in CLL is graft versus leukemia (GVL) activity.</p><p>The major complications of allogeneic SCT in CLL are: chronic graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD) affecting quality of life, high graft rejection and infection rates rates correlated with preexisting immunosuppression. Disease relapse remains the major cause of failure after RIC allo-HCT in CLL patients.</p><p>Sensitive minimal residual disease (MRD) quantification has strong prognostic impact after transplant. <strong></strong></p></span></span></span><p> </p>http://www.mjhid.org/article/view/6184Chronic Lymphocytic LeukemiaFludarabineallogeneic transplantation
spellingShingle Patrizia Chiusolo
Michela Tarnani
Luca Laurenti
Federica Sorà
Simona Sica
ALLOGENEIC TRANSPLANTATION FOR CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA
Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Fludarabine
allogeneic transplantation
title ALLOGENEIC TRANSPLANTATION FOR CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA
title_full ALLOGENEIC TRANSPLANTATION FOR CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA
title_fullStr ALLOGENEIC TRANSPLANTATION FOR CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA
title_full_unstemmed ALLOGENEIC TRANSPLANTATION FOR CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA
title_short ALLOGENEIC TRANSPLANTATION FOR CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA
title_sort allogeneic transplantation for chronic lymphocytic leukemia
topic Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Fludarabine
allogeneic transplantation
url http://www.mjhid.org/article/view/6184
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