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ArticleBone marrow transplantation2017

Tacrolimus plus sirolimus with or without ATG as GVHD prophylaxis in HLA-mismatched unrelated donor allogeneic stem cell transplantation.

M A Kharfan-Dabaja, R Parody, J Perkins, O Lopez-Godino, L Lopez-Corral, L Vazquez, D Caballero, J Falantes, J Shapiro, G Ortí and 10 more

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Article in Bone marrow transplantation, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors at 7 institutions in 2 countries.

M A Kharfan-DabajaDepartment of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA.
R ParodyDepartment of Hematology, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBIS)/CSIC, Sevilla, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0375-7570
J PerkinsDepartment of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA.
O Lopez-GodinoHospital Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
L Lopez-CorralHospital Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
L VazquezHospital Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
D CaballeroHospital Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
J FalantesDepartment of Hematology, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBIS)/CSIC, Sevilla, Spain.
J ShapiroDepartment of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA.
G OrtíHospital Universitario Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain.
P BarbaHospital Universitario Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain.
D ValcárcelHospital Universitario Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain.
A EsquirolHospital Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.
R MartinoHospital Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.
J L PiñanaHospital Clínico de Valenci, Valencia, Spain.
C SolanoHospital Clínico de Valenci, Valencia, Spain.
A TsalatsanisCenter for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA.
J PidalaDepartment of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA.
C AnasettiDepartment of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA.
J A Perez-SimónDepartment of Hematology, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBIS)/CSIC, Sevilla, Spain.
Complejo Hospitalario de Salamanca · ESMoffitt Cancer Center · USInstituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla · ESVall d'Hebron Hospital Universitari · ESHospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia · ESHospital de Sant Pau · ESUniversity of South Florida · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

HLA-matched related or unrelated donors are not universally available. Consequently, patients can be offered hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) from alternative donors, including mismatched unrelated donors (MMURD), known to cause a higher incidence of acute GVHD (aGVHD) and chronic GVHD. In vivo T-cell-depletion strategies, such as antithymocyte globulin (ATG) therapy, significantly decrease the risk of GVHD. We performed a multicenter, retrospective study comparing tacrolimus (TAC) and sirolimus (SIR) with or without ATG in 104 patients (TAC-SIR=45, TAC-SIR-ATG=59) who underwent MMURD HSCT. Use of ATG was associated with a lower incidence, albeit not statistically significant, of grades 2-4 aGVHD (46% vs 64%, P=0.09), no difference in grades 3-4 aGVHD (10% vs 15%, P=0.43), a trend for a lower incidence of moderate/severe chronic GVHD (16% vs 37%, P=0.09) and more frequent Epstein-Barr virus reactivation (54% vs 18%, P=0.0002). There were no statistically significant differences in 3-year overall survival (OS) (TAC-SIR-ATG=40% (95% confidence interval (CI)=24-56%) vs TAC-SIR=54% (95% CI=37-70%), P=0.43) or 3-year cumulative incidence of relapse/progression (TAC-SIR-ATG=40% (95% CI=28-58%) vs TAC-SIR=22% (95% CI=13-39%), P=0.92). An intermediate Center for International Blood & Marrow Transplant Research disease risk resulted in a significantly lower non-relapse mortality and better OS at 3 years. Our study suggests that addition of ATG to TAC-SIR in MMURD HSCT does not affect OS when compared with TAC-SIR alone.

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Stem Cell TransplantationUnrelated DonorsAcute DiseaseAdolescentAdultAgedAllograftsChronic DiseaseDisease-Free SurvivalFemaleGraft vs Host DiseaseHLA AntigensHumansLymphocyte DepletionMaleMiddle AgedHLA AntigensSirolimusTacrolimus

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