Feto‐maternal microchimaerism does not indicate the existence of feto‐maternal immunological tolerance in human leucocyte antigen haploidentical haematopoietic stem cell transplantation from mother to offspring
Feto‐maternal microchimaerism does not indicate the existence of feto‐maternal immunological tolerance in human leucocyte antigen haploidentical haematopoietic stem cell transplantation from mother to offspring
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母婴微嵌合并不表明人白细胞抗原半相合造血干细胞母体移植中存在母婴免疫耐受
DOI:
10.1046/j.1365-2141.2003.04507.x
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发表时间:
2003
影响因子:
6.5
通讯作者:
C. Shimazaki
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文献类型:
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作者:
N. Ochiai;T. Inaba;E. Maruya;H. Saji;M. Nakagawa;C. Shimazaki
The existence of fetal haematopoietic cells in the maternal blood and vice versa, which is called feto-maternal microchimaerism, supports the existence of feto-maternal immunological tolerance (Evans et al, 1999; Ichinohe et al, 2002). The role of feto-maternal immunological tolerance was demonstrated recently in allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) (Ochiai et al, 2002; van Rood et al, 2002; Maruya et al, 2003; Shimazaki et al, 2003). It is unclear whether the existence of feto-maternal microchimaerism is an indicator of feto-maternal immunological tolerance in allogeneic HSCT. We report a case of T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma (T-LBL) successfully transplanted from a human leucocyte antigen (HLA) haploidentical 3-loci mismatched mother without T-cell depletion (TCD), in which an HLA-nested polymerase chain reaction with sequence-specific primer typing (PCR-SSP) did not demonstrate recipient chimaeric cells in the peripheral blood (PB) and peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) of the mother (Ichinohe et al, 2002; Maruya et al, 2003). A 17-year-old male was admitted to hospital in July 1999 with a diagnosis of T-LBL in stage IV (Ann Arbor classification). The patient received combination chemotherapy, and autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT) was performed, but he did not achieve a complete remission. There were no available HLAmatched donors among family members, unrelated bone marrow donors and cord blood banks. The patient was HLA 3-loci mismatched from his mother (Table I). HLAnested PCR-SSP did not detect the inherited paternal antigens (IPA) of the patient in the PB and PBSC of the mother. The patient’s multiple systemic lymph node swelling deteriorated rapidly. After obtaining the agreement of the ethical committee of our hospital and written informed consent from the patient, we performed an HLA haploidentical HSCT using PBSC induced by granulocyte colony-stimulating factor without TCD or CD34 cell selection, based on the hypothesis of fetomaternal immunological tolerance. The patient received a conditioning regimen consisting of cytarabine, cyclophosphamide and total body irradiation at 8Æ0 Gy. Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis consisted of tacrolimus and minidose methotrexate as described previously (Ochiai et al, 2002; Shimazaki et al, 2003). A total of 3Æ8 · 10 ⁄ kg CD34 cells were infused in July 2002. The engraftment of donor haematopoietic stem cells was rapid and sustained. An acute GVHD of grade 1 occurred on d 10, which improved rapidly with prednisolone at 2 mg ⁄ kg ⁄ d. Fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis of bone marrow mononuclear cells every 30 d showed complete chimaerism. On d 89, the patient complained of diplopia and visual disturbance. Gd-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed an abnormal enhancement of bilateral third nerves. Tacrolimus and prednisolone were reduced to induce a graft-versus-leukaemia effect. On d 115, he had severe systemic eruption with high fever and, surprisingly, the diplopia and visual disturbance improved. He was discharged in December 2002. The existence of immunological tolerance between mother and fetus has become clear in allogeneic HSCT recently (Ochiai et al, 2002; van Rood et al, 2002; Maruya et al, 2003; Shimazaki et al, 2003). We performed an HLA haploidentical HSCT without TCD based on the feto-maternal microchimaerism in five patients with advanced haematological malignancies (Shimazaki et al, 2003). Although these cases were 2or 3-loci HLA mismatched, an acute GVHD of £ grade 2 developed in all patients except one, who developed tacrolimus encephalopathy. Maruya et al (2003) surveyed 33 Japanese patients who received non-TCD HLA haploidentical HSCT and reported a higher incidence of severe GVHD from the mother compared with those from donors who were either non-inherited maternal antigenmismatched siblings or offspring (60% versus 0%). These reports suggested that the incidence of severe acute GVHD could not simply be predicted by the existence of fetomaternal microchimaerism in HLA 3-loci-mismatched HSCT from mother to offspring, and our case suggests that Table I. HLA-match relationship between the patient (recipient) and his mother.
影响因子:
20.3
作者:
Evans, PC;Lambert, N;Nelson, JL
通讯作者:
Nelson, JL