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ArticleBlood advances2021

Humoral immune reconstitution after anti-BCMA CAR T-cell therapy in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Ying Wang, Chunrui Li, Jieyun Xia, Ping Li, Jiang Cao, Bin Pan, Xu Tan, Hujun Li, Kunming Qi, Xiangmin Wang and 14 more

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Article in Blood advances, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 74 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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74 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 96 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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24 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Ying Wang
Chunrui LiDepartment of Hematology, Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Jieyun Xia
Ping LiDepartment of Hematology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Jiang Cao
Bin Pan
Xu TanMedical Center of Hematology, Xinqiao Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China.
Hujun Li
Kunming Qi
Xiangmin Wang
Ming Shi
Guangjun JingiCARTAB Biomedical Co, Ltd, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
Zhiling Yan
Hai Cheng
Haiying Sun
Wei Sang
Depeng Li
Xi ZhangMedical Center of Hematology, Xinqiao Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China.
Zhenyu Li
Junnian Zheng
Aibin LiangDepartment of Hematology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Jianfeng ZhouDepartment of Hematology, Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Xuzhou Medical College · CNArmy Medical University · CNTongji Hospital · CNTongji University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Systematic and dynamic humoral immune reconstitution is little-known for patients with relapsed/refractory (R/R) multiple myeloma (MM) who received anti-B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy. We investigated the kinetics of B-cell, normal plasma cell, and immunoglobulin recovery in 40 patients who achieved ongoing response after anti-BCMA CAR T-cell therapy. All patients developed B-cell aplasia and the median duration of B-cell aplasia was 70 days (range, 23-270). The B-cell count reached its nadir on median day 7 and returned to baseline level on median day 97. BCMA+ cells in bone marrow turned undetectable on median day 28 (13-159) in 94.87% (37 of 39) of patients. Normal plasma cells in bone marrow were first redetected on median day 212. All patients developed a significant decrease in serum IgG, IgA, and IgM on median day 60. At year 1, recovery of serum IgG, IgM, and IgA was observed in 53.33% (8 of 15; non-IgG MM), 73.08% (19 of 26; non-IgM MM), and 23.81% (5 of 21;non-IgA MM) of the patients, respectively. Median time to IgG, IgM, and IgA recovery were days 386, 254, and not reached during follow-up, respectively. Virus-specific IgG levels decreased with loss of protection. Twenty-three of 40 (57.5%) patients had a total of 44 infection events. There were no infection-related deaths. These results reveal a 7-month aplasia of bone marrow normal plasma cells and longer period of hypogammaglobulinemia, suggesting a profound and lasting humoral immune deficiency after anti-BCMA CAR T-cell therapy, especially for IgA.

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Immune ReconstitutionMultiple MyelomaReceptors, Chimeric AntigenB-Cell Maturation AntigenHumansImmunotherapy, AdoptiveB-Cell Maturation AntigenReceptors, Chimeric Antigen

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