ArticleTransplantation and cellular therapy2021
Relevance of Plasma Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 for Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Improving Outcomes Assessment in Chronic GVHD
Fluticasone Propionate, Azithromycin, and Montelukast Sodium in Treating Patients With Bronchiolitis Obliterans Who Previously Underwent Stem Cell Transplant
Chronic GVHD Response Measures Validation
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Use of the NIH consensus criteria in cellular and soluble biomarker research in chronic graft-versus-host disease: A systematic review.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Pooled it
- Plasma proteins associated with chronic graft-versus-host disease organ involvement.JCI insight · 2026Article
- Current therapeutics for sclerotic and fibrotic manifestations of chronic graft-versus-host disease.Bone marrow transplantation · 2026Review
- NIH Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease Consensus Conference 2025 Update.Transplantation and cellular therapy · 2025Review
- Inflammatory Markers and Microbiome Dysbiosis in Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients with Lung Graft-versus-Host Disease.Transplantation and cellular therapy · 2025Article
- Addressing Knowledge Gaps in the Early Detection of Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome after Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: An Official American Thoracic Society Research Statement.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2025Article
- Pediatric Transplant and Cellular Therapy Consortium RESILIENT Conference on Pediatric Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease Survivorship after Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: Part II. Organ Dysfunction and Immune Reconstitution Considerations for Children with Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease after Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation.Transplantation and cellular therapy · 2025Article
- Current status, challenges, and integration pathways of biomarker classification systems in graft-versus-host disease: a preliminary exploration.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Review
- Associations between acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease.Blood advances · 2024Article
- Graft-Versus-Host Disease: Can Biomarkers Assist in Differential Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Therapeutic Strategy?Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Blood MMP-9 measured at 2 years after lung transplantation as a prognostic biomarker of chronic lung allograft dysfunction.Respiratory research · 2024Article
- Chronic graft-versus-host disease is characterized by high levels and distinctive tissue-of-origin patterns of cell-free DNA.iScience · 2023Article
- Markers of Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome after Lung Transplant: Between Old Knowledge and Future Perspective.Biomedicines · 2022Review
- Current Definitions and Clinical Implications of Biomarkers in Graft-versus-Host Disease.Transplantation and cellular therapy · 2022Review
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Abstract
Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) is a highly morbid form of chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). Several plasma proteins have been identified as biomarkers for BOS after lung transplantation. The relevance of these biomarkers in BOS patients after allogeneic HCT has not been examined. We hypothesized that biomarkers associated with BOS after lung transplantation are also associated with BOS after allogeneic HCT. We tested plasma samples from 33 adult HCT patients who participated in a phase II multicenter study of fluticasone, azithromycin, and montelukast (FAM) treatment for new-onset BOS (NCT01307462), and matched control samples of HCT patients who had non-BOS chronic GVHD (n = 31) and those who never experienced chronic GVHD (n = 29) (NCT00637689 and NCT01902576). Candidate biomarkers included matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9), MMP-3, and chitinase-3-like-1 glycoprotein (YKL-40). MMP-9 concentrations were higher in the patients with BOS compared with those with non-BOS chronic GVHD (P = .04) or no chronic GVHD (P < .001). MMP-3 concentrations were higher in patients with BOS (P < .001) or non-BOS chronic GVHD (P < .001) compared with those with no chronic GVHD. YKL-40 concentrations did not differ statistically among the 3 groups. MMP-9 concentrations before starting FAM therapy were higher in patients who experienced treatment failure within 6 months compared with those with treatment success (P = .006), whereas MMP-3 or YKL-40 concentrations did not differ statistically between these 2 groups. Patients with an MMP-9 concentration ≥200,000 pg/mL before starting FAM therapy had worse overall survival compared with those with lower MMP-9 concentrations. Our data suggest that plasma MMP-9 concentration could serve as a relevant biomarker at diagnosis of BOS after allogeneic HCT for prognostication of survival and for prediction of treatment response. Further validation is needed to confirm our findings.
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