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ArticleAnnals of hematology2024

Relapse and transformation to myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia following immunosuppressive therapy for aplastic anemia is more common as compared to allogeneic stem cell transplantation with a negative impact on survival.

Sohini Chattopadhyay, Sharon Lionel, Sushil Selvarajan, Anup J Devasia, Anu Korula, Uday Kulkarni, Fouzia N Aboobacker, Kavitha M Lakshmi, Alok Srivastava, Vikram Mathews and 2 more

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Article in Annals of hematology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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Sohini ChattopadhyayDepartment of Haematology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8427-0582
Sharon LionelDepartment of Haematology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4558-7330
Sushil SelvarajanDepartment of Haematology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4045-3496
Anup J DevasiaDepartment of Haematology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3587-8601
Anu KorulaDepartment of Haematology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3207-3370
Uday KulkarniDepartment of Haematology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2230-2424
Fouzia N AboobackerDepartment of Haematology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0406-8438
Kavitha M LakshmiDepartment of Haematology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
Alok SrivastavaDepartment of Haematology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5032-5020
Vikram MathewsDepartment of Haematology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9417-2353
Aby AbrahamDepartment of Haematology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2596-4434
Biju GeorgeDepartment of Haematology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India. biju@cmcvellore.ac.in.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9847-9501
Christian Medical College, Vellore · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We studied the incidence of relapse, transformation to myelodysplastic syndrome/acute myeloid leukemia, and survival in patients with aplastic anemia (AA) surviving more than 1 year after ATG/ALG-based immunosuppressive therapy (IST) between 1985 and 2020. Four-hundred seventy patients (413 adults and 57 children) were studied, and data were compared with 223 patients who underwent matched sibling donor transplant (MSD HSCT). Median follow-up is 50 months (12-359). Relapse occurred in 21.9% at a median time of 33.5 months (5-228) post IST. Twenty-six (5.5%) patients progressed to PNH, while 20 (4.3%) evolved to MDS/AML. Ten-year estimated overall survival (OS) is 80.9 ± 3% and was significantly better in patients without an event (85.1 ± 4%) compared to relapse (74.6% ± 6.2%) or clonal evolution (12.8% ± 11.8%) (p = 0.024). While the severity of AA (p = 0.011) and type of ATG (p = 0.028) used predicted relapse, only age at IST administration influenced clonal evolution (p = 0.018). Among HSCT recipients, relapse rates were 4.9% with no clonal evolution, and the 10-year OS was 94.5 ± 2%. In patients who survived 1 year following IST, outcomes were good except with clonal evolution to MDS/AML. These outcomes, however, were still inferior compared to matched sibling donor HSCT.

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Anemia, AplasticGraft vs Host DiseaseHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationLeukemia, Myeloid, AcuteMyelodysplastic SyndromesAdultChildHumansImmunosuppression TherapyRecurrenceRetrospective StudiesClonal evolutionHSCTISTRelapseSurvival

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