Preservation of fertility in women undergoing reduced-intensity conditioning allogeneic transplantation with a fludarabine-based regime.
Preservation of fertility in women undergoing reduced-intensity conditioning allogeneic transplantation with a fludarabine-based regime.
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使用基于氟达拉滨的方案进行低强度条件同种异体移植的女性的生育能力的保留。
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发表时间:
2012
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影响因子:
6.2
通讯作者:
Panagiotis D. Kottaridis
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S. Papageorgiou;O. Ahmed;N. Narvekar;M. Davies;Panagiotis D. Kottaridis
Infertility is a major late effect in patients receiving either conventional or high-dose chemotherapy or hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (SCT) for hematological malignancies and nonmalignant disorders (1). Most of the published data in relation to patients undergoing a hematopoietic SCT come from studies reporting the deleterious effect of the conditioning in recipients of primarily myeloablative regimens (2, 3). Reduced-intensity conditioning SCT (RIC-SCT) has minimized the use of total-body irradiation as part of the pretransplantation conditioning regime and has therefore reduced the short-term and long-term toxicity. We have previously reported low rate of nonrelapse mortality and low incidence of graftversus-host disease with a RIC protocol based on a fludarabine, melphalan, and campath-1H combination (4). The present study aimed to document the effect of RIC on ovarian function. Female patients of reproductive age who underwent an RIC transplantation from 2001 to 2009 were identified from our clinical database. We retrospectively collected data on female patients who were being followed up in the late effects clinic and identified those who had (i) maintained menstruation; (ii) normal luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), and estradiol levels; (iii) radiologic evidence of ovarian follicles; and (iv) went on to conceive. Ovarian function was assessed by measuring basal serum FSH, LH, estradiol, and antral follicle count. Ovarian activity and fertility potential was considered optimal if FSH and LH values were less than 10 IU/L and antral follicle count were greater than 8. Thirty female patients aged 19 to 44 years who underwent an RIC transplantation were identified. Of these, 26 had already sustained gonadal damage (as it was demonstrated by increased FSH, LH, and amenorrhea) from antecedent chemotherapy before the transplantation and were excluded from further study. Two of 30 patients had preserved fertility (normal FSH, LH, and cycling) before the transplantation and retained ovarian function even after the transplantation. In addition, two more patients who were heavily pretreated before the transplantation became pregnant at 11 and 37 months after transplantation despite the fact that the hormonal profile after transplantation was consistent with menopause (Table 1). The ages of the patients were 19, 25, 33, and 35 years (Table 1). Diagnoses were Hodgkin lymphoma in two patients and myelodysplastic syndromes in two patients. The patients received either a sibling allograft (n=1) or matched unrelated-donor transplant (n=3) with RIC that consisted of fludarabine/ melphalan/campath-1H (n=3) and fludarabine/tresulfan/campath-1H (n=1). Of these four patients, two went on to become pregnant despite documented high gonadotrophins. The remaining two patients both had menstruation after transplantation and relative preservation of ovarian function as evidenced by LH, FSH, and estradiol. Ultrasound imaging