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ArticleJournal of medical case reports2020

Pralatrexate as a bridge to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in a patient with advanced-stage extranodal nasal-type natural killer/T cell lymphoma refractory to first-line chemotherapy: a case report.

Yao-Chung Liu, Ting-An Lin, Hao-Yuan Wang, Po-Shen Ko, Chia-Jen Liu, Liang-Tsai Hsiao, Sheng-Hsuan Chien, Jyh-Pyng Gau

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Article in Journal of medical case reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Yao-Chung LiuDivision of Haematology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, No. 201, Section 2, Shipai Road, Beitou District, Taipei City, 112, Taiwan. ycliu17@vghtpe.gov.tw.
Ting-An LinDivision of Haematology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, No. 201, Section 2, Shipai Road, Beitou District, Taipei City, 112, Taiwan.
Hao-Yuan WangDivision of Haematology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, No. 201, Section 2, Shipai Road, Beitou District, Taipei City, 112, Taiwan.
Po-Shen KoDivision of Haematology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, No. 201, Section 2, Shipai Road, Beitou District, Taipei City, 112, Taiwan.
Chia-Jen LiuDivision of Haematology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, No. 201, Section 2, Shipai Road, Beitou District, Taipei City, 112, Taiwan.
Liang-Tsai HsiaoDivision of Haematology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, No. 201, Section 2, Shipai Road, Beitou District, Taipei City, 112, Taiwan.
Sheng-Hsuan ChienFaculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, No. 155, Section 2, Linong St, Beitou District, Taipei City, 112, Taiwan.
Jyh-Pyng GauDivision of Haematology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, No. 201, Section 2, Shipai Road, Beitou District, Taipei City, 112, Taiwan.
National Taipei University · TWNational Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · TWTaipei Veterans General Hospital · TWNational Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · TW

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Abstract

backgroundExtranodal natural killer/T cell lymphoma, nasal type, is one of the more common subtypes of mature T cell lymphoma, especially in the Far East Asian population. This aggressive histologic subtype of peripheral T cell lymphomas is frequently susceptible to exposure of Epstein-Barr virus infection. The optimal treatment is not well elucidated. For stage IV disseminated extranodal natural killer/T cell lymphoma, induction chemotherapy with consolidative autologus or allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is recommended as the major first-line treatment. However, there is controversy over which type of chemotherapy is most appropriate and effective as a bridge to autologus or allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in patients with newly diagnosed disseminated advanced-stage or relapsed extranodal natural killer/T cell lymphoma because of cancer chemoresistance or associated complications. Pralatrexate is the first US Food and Drug Administration-approved novel agent for the treatment of refractory/recurrent peripheral T cell lymphomas. In our case, pralatrexate was used as a successful bridge to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in a patient with advanced-stage disseminated extranodal natural killer/T cell lymphoma refractory to first-line chemotherapy. CASE PRESENTATION: We presented a case report of a 29-year-old Asian man diagnosed as having stage IV disseminated extranodal natural killer/T cell lymphoma, nasal type, with skin and bone marrow involvement, whose disease was primary refractory to first-line dexamethasone, methotrexate, ifosfamide, L-asparaginase, and etoposide chemotherapy, but obviously responded to treatment with two cycles of single-agent pralatrexate treatment. Monitoring Epstein-Barr virus viremia revealed dramatic downregulation. In addition to complete remission of the involvement of bone marrow and nasal cavity, skin involvement also obtained partial remission. The extranodal natural killer/T cell lymphoma successfully achieved complete remission after a bridge to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

conclusionsThis is the first study to present pralatrexate as a successful bridge to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in a 29-year-old Asian male patient with advanced-stage extranodal natural killer/T cell lymphoma refractory to first-line dexamethasone, methotrexate, ifosfamide, L-asparaginase, and etoposide chemotherapy. This case provides a novel treatment opinion for extranodal natural killer/T cell lymphoma, especially for the Far East Asian population.

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Hematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationTransplantation ConditioningAdultAllograftsAminopterinHumansLymphoma, Extranodal NK-T-CellMaleNeoplasm StagingRemission InductionTaiwan10-propargyl-10-deazaaminopterinAminopterinAllogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantationChemotherapyNatural killer/T cell lymphomaPeripheral T cell lymphomaPralatrexate

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