Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is an important therapeutic option for a variety of malignant and nonmalignant disorders. Unfortunately, BMT recipients are at increased risk of infection, and in particular, pulmonary complications occur frequently. Although the risk of infection is greatest during the neutropenic period immediately following transplant, patients are still vulnerable to pulmon...

UNLABELLED Intensification of the conditioning regimen with a radioactively labeled anti-CD66 antibody is feasible before allogeneic stem cell transplantation. The use of radioimmunotherapy may deliver a significant dose of radiation to the kidneys. We therefore studied the incidence and clinical picture of bone marrow transplantation (BMT) nephropathy in our patients receiving radioimmunothera...

Limited data are available for adults undergoing unrelated donor (URD) BMT for AML using chemotherapy-only preparative regimens. Previous studies incorporated irradiation, included adults and children, and excluded secondary leukemia. Herein we report long-term outcomes for adults with poor-prognostic AML receiving a novel regimen of busulfan (16 mg/kg), cytarabine (8,000 mg/m(2)), and cyclopho...

In 3 of 15 consecutive patients receiving a human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-identical but major ABO incompatible bone marrow transplant (BMT), pure red cell aplasia (PRA) lasting 5 to 8 months was observed. Titers of the incompatible anti-A agglutinin before infusion of the red blood cell (RBC)-depleted BMT was very high in one, and in the usual range in two patients. Decrease of agglutinin titer...

Two cases of leukemia were treated successfully with apheresis for delayed recovery of erythropoiesis due to antibody-mediated red cell aplasia after ABO-mismatched bone marrow transplantation (BMT). A 25-year-old female (ABO group O) underwent BMT from her brother (group A). Immunoadsorption using Biosynsorb A performed on day 146 after BMT followed by double filtration plasma pheresis (DFPP) ...

Sixteen patients treated by allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) for chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) were evaluated by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for bcr/abl-specific RNA transcripts at various time points after BMT. In reconstitution experiments, one CML cell per million normal mononuclear cells could be detected by direct agarose gel visualization of a bcr/abl-specific ban...

The authors present the case of a 24-year-old male with treatment-resistant schizophrenia, with predominant severe delusion and hallucination, who received bone marrow transplantation (BMT) for acute myeloid leukemia. After BMT, he showed a remarkable reduction in psychotic symptoms without administration of neuroleptics. He also showed drastic improvement in social functioning. Follow-up evalu...

Acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). a major complication of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT). is probably mediated by T lymphocytes present in the marrow graft. In this study. the repopulation of the peripheral blood with T4 and T8 T cells was investigated during the period preceding the occurrence of acute GVHD. Twentyfour allogeneic and 1 1 autologous BMT recipients were monit...

OBJECTIVE To determine the value of skin biopsies in the management of suspected graft-vs-host disease (GVHD) within 30 days of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT). DESIGN Retrospective study based on review of a BMT database. SETTING Leukemia/BMT ward of a tertiary care, university teaching hospital. PATIENTS One hundred and eighty-seven consecutive patients who received allogen...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES We compared the outcome of bone marrow transplantation (BMT) from HLA-identical siblings (MSD) and one HLA-locus mismatched siblings (PMSD) in Chinese patients with hematologic malignancies in terms of transplant-related mortality (TRM) and disease relapse to see whether PMSD can feasibly increase the availability of donors in our population. DESIGN AND METHODS Medic...