Bone marrow transplantation across HLA barriers by increasing the number of transplanted cells.
Bone marrow transplantation across HLA barriers by increasing the number of transplanted cells.
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10.1016/0167-5699(95)80021-2
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1995-09
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Y. Reisner;Massimo F. Martelli
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作者:
Y. Reisner;Massimo F. Martelli
Throughout the 1970s graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) was uniformly lethal in recipients of HLA-mismatched bone marrow. This major obstacle was overcome in 2980 by the introduction of rigorous T-cell depletion prior to transplantation into patients with severe combined immunodeficiency. However, in leukemia patients, the benefit of preventing GVHD was offset by graft rejection or graft failure. In this article, Yair Reisner and Massimo Martelli discuss how this problem may be overcome by intensification of the conditioning protocol in conjunction with a major increase in the dose of transplanted stem cells.The application of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) for the treatment of patients with hematological malignancies and other diseases is hampered by the lack of availability of suitable major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-matched donors. Less than 30% of patients who might benefit from BMT have HLA-identical siblings, and only 3-5% have a relative with only a single HLA-locus mismatch. The recent establishment of large registries of HLA-typed individuals has led to a substantial increase in transplants from unrelated donors. Although 40-50% of Caucasian patients in the USA are successful in locating an HLA-A, B, DR-matched, unrelated donor, other ethnic groups have a much lower probability of finding donors due to marked polymorphism; in general, many patients fail to find an appropriate (related or unrelated) donor. By contrast, nearly all patients have an HLA-haploidentical relative (parent, child, sibling) who could serve as a donor.