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Background: Patients with severe combined immunodeficiency disease who have matched sibling donors (MSDs) can proceed to hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) without conditioning chemotherapy.Objective: We sought to determine whether the results of HCT without chemotherapy-based conditioning from matched unrelated donors (URDs), either from volunteer adults or umbilical cord blood, are comparable with those from MSDs.Methods: We performed a multicenter survey of severe combined immunodeficiency transplantation centers in North America, Europe, and Australia to compile retrospective data on patients who have undergone unconditioned HCT from either URDs (n = 37) or MSDs (n = 66).Results: Most patients undergoing URD HCT (92%) achieved donor T-cell engraftment compared with 97% for those with MSDs; however, estimated 5-year overall and event-free survival were worse for URD recipients (71% and 60%, respectively) compared with MSD recipients (92% and 89%, respectively; P < .01 for both). URD recipients who received pre-HCT serotherapy had similar 5-year overall survival (100%) to MSD recipients. The incidences of grade II to IV acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease were higher in URD (50% and 39%, respectively) compared with MSD (22% and 5%, respectively) recipients (P < .01 for both). In the surviving patients there was no difference in T-cell reconstitution at the last follow-up between the URD and MSD recipients; however, MSD recipients were more likely to achieve B-cell reconstitution (72% vs 17%, P < .001).Conclusion: Unconditioned URD HCT achieves excellent rates of donor T-cell engraftment similar to that seen in MSD recipients, and reconstitution rates are adequate. However, only a minority will have myeloid and B-cell reconstitution, and attention must be paid to graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis. This approach might be safer in children ineligible for intense regimens to spare the potential complications of chemotherapy.
Author(s): Dvorak CC, Hassan A, Slatter MA, Honig M, Lankester AC, Buckley RH, Pulsipher MA, Davis JH, Gungor T, Gabriel M, Bleesing JH, Bunin N, Sedlacek P, Connell JA, Crawford DF, Notarangelo LD, Pai SY, Hassid J, Veys P, Gennery AR, Cowan MJ
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Year: 2014
Volume: 134
Issue: 4
Pages: 935-943.e15
Print publication date: 01/10/2014
Online publication date: 07/08/2014
Acceptance date: 20/06/2014
ISSN (print): 0091-6749
ISSN (electronic): 1097-6825
Publisher: Mosby, Inc.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2014.06.021
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2014.06.021
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