ArticleBlood cell therapy2024
Procalcitonin elevation in febrile recipients during pre-transplant conditioning with anti-thymocyte globulin.
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Infection is a major contributor to non-relapse mortality in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT). Detecting infectious diseases in febrile patients during pretransplant conditioning is crucial for subsequent transplant success. Procalcitonin (PCT) is an auxiliary diagnostic marker of severe bacterial infections and has been proposed as a useful predictor of infection in patients undergoing allo-HSCT. Pre-transplant use of anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) can cause side effects, such as fever and hypotension, which must be distinguished from infectious diseases. Although ATG administration may increase PCT levels, data on PCT levels in febrile patients after ATG administration are limited. Furthermore, no studies have compared PCT levels during allo-HSCT conditioning using ATG or non-ATG regimens. To investigate whether ATG increases PCT levels during febrile episodes in pre-transplant conditioning and whether PCT could be used to discriminate infections during this period, we analyzed 17 ATG and 59 non-ATG patients with fever and who underwent PCT level measurements during pre-transplant conditioning. Our findings revealed that ATG administration was the only significant factor that increased PCT positivity during fever (
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