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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2020

Addition of Rituximab in Reduced Intensity Conditioning Regimens for B-Cell Malignancies Does Not Influence Transplant Outcomes: EBMT Registry Analyses Following Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation for B-Cell Malignancies.

Agnieszka Tomaszewska, Madan Jagasia, Eric Beohou, Steffie van der Werf, Didier Blaise, Edward Kanfer, Noel Milpied, Péter Reményi, Fabio Ciceri, Jean H Bourhis and 22 more

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

32 authors at 20 institutions in 14 countries.

Agnieszka TomaszewskaDepartment of Hematology, Transplantology and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
Madan JagasiaDivision of Hematology-Oncology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States.
Eric BeohouEBMT Paris Statistical Unit, Paris, France.
Steffie van der WerfEBMT Data Office, Leiden, Netherlands.
Didier BlaiseInstitut Paoli Calmettes, Marseille, France.
Edward KanferHammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare, London, United Kingdom.
Noel MilpiedHopital Haut-leveque, Bordeaux, France.
Péter ReményiDél-pesti Centrumkórház, Budapest, Hungary.
Fabio CiceriOspedale San Raffaele s.r.l., Milan, Italy.
Jean H BourhisGustave Roussy Institute de Cancérologie, Val de Marne, France.
Patrice ChevallierCHU Nantes, Nantes, France.
Carlos SolanoHospital Clínico Universitario, Valencia, Spain.
Gerard SociéHopital St. Louis, Paris, France.
Benedetto BrunoA.O.U. Citta della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Universita di Torino, Turin, Italy.
Alessandro RambaldiAzienda Ospedaliera Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy.
Luca CastagnaIstituto Clinico Humanitas, Milan, Italy.
Nicolaus KrögerUniversity Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Paolo CorradiniFondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, University of Milano, Milan, Italy.
Boris AfanasyevFirst State Pavlov Medical University of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Marco LadettoH SS. Antonio e Biagio, Alessandria, Italy.
Dietger NiederwieserUniversity Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Christof ScheidUniversity of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Henrik SengeloevRigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Frank KroschinskyUniversitätsklinikum Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Ibrahim Yakoub-AghaHôpital Huriez CHRU, Lille, France.
Helene SchoemansUniversity Hospitals Leuven and KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Christian KoeneckeHannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Olaf PenackDepartment of Hematology, Oncology, and Tumor Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Zinaida PerićUniversity Hospital Center Rebro, Zagreb, Croatia.
Hildegard GreinixDepartment of Hematology and Oncology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
Rafael F DuarteHospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain.
Grzegorz W BasakDepartment of Hematology, Transplantology and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
Medical University of Warsaw · PLAzienda Ospedaliera Citta' della Salute e della Scienza di Torino · ITAzienda Ospedaliera Nazionale SS. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo · ITCentre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nantes · FRCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DEEppendorf (Germany) · DEEuropean Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation · NLEuropean Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation · FRFirst Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg · RUFondazione Humanitas per la Ricerca · ITHôpital Cardiologique du Haut-Lévêque · FRHôpital Claude Huriez · FRHôpital Saint-Louis · FRHospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia · ESHospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda · ESImperial College Healthcare NHS Trust · GBInstitut Gustave Roussy · FRInstitut Paoli-Calmettes · FRIRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele · ITJahn Ferenc Dél-Pesti Kórház és Rendelőintézet · HU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rituximab (R) is increasingly incorporated in reduced intensity conditioning (RIC) regimens for allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (alloHCT) in patients with B-cell malignancies, not only to improve disease control, but also to prevent graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). There are no randomized prospective data to validate this practice, although single center data and the CIBMTR analysis have shown promising results. We aimed at validation of these findings in a large registry study. We conducted a retrospective analysis using the EBMT registry of 3,803 adult patients with B-cell malignancies undergoing alloHCT (2001-2013) with either rituximab (R-RIC-9%) or non-rituximab (RIC-91%) reduced intensity regimens respectively. Median age and median follow up were 55 years (range 19.1-77.3) and 43.2 months (range 0.3-179.8), respectively. There was no difference in transplant outcomes (R-RIC vs RIC), including 1-year overall survival (69.9% vs 70.7%), 1-year disease-free survival (64.4% vs 62.2%), 1-year non-relapse mortality (21% vs 22%), and day-100 incidence of acute GVHD 2-4° (12% vs 12%). In summary, we found that addition of rituximab in RIC regimens for B-cell malignancies had no significant impact on major transplant outcome variables. Of note, data on chronic GVHD was not available, limiting the conclusions that can be drawn from the present study.

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AdultAgedB-LymphocytesDisease-Free SurvivalFemaleGraft vs Host DiseaseHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationHumansLeukemia, B-CellLymphoma, B-CellMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasmsRegistriesRituximabTransplantation ConditioningRituximabB-cell malignancyconditioninggraft-versus-host diseasenon-relapse mortality after hematopoietic cell transplantationrituximabtransplantation

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