Publications by authors named "A Laiglesia"
Background: Patients with secondary acute myeloid leukemia who previously received hypomethylating agents for prior myeloid neoplasms (HMA-sAML) face a dismal prognosis.
Methods: The authors analyze the characteristics, therapeutic approaches, and outcomes of patients with HMA-sAML from the Programa Español para el Tratamiento de Hemopatías Malignas (PETHEMA) registry.
Results: A total of 479 patients were included, mostly from prior myelodysplastic syndrome (84%).
Article Synopsis
- Avatrombopag is a newly approved treatment for immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), with limited real-world effectiveness and safety data available.
- A study by the Spanish ITP Group involving 268 patients showed that 90.1% of those with low platelet counts improved significantly after starting the drug, with many achieving stable platelet levels.
- The treatment allowed most patients to reduce or stop corticosteroid use, and only a small percentage experienced thrombocytosis or thromboembolic events, indicating its potential as an effective management option for ITP.
The most important challenges in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is preventing early death and reducing long-term events, such as second neoplasms (s-NPLs). We performed a retrospective analysis of 2670 unselected APL patients, treated with PETHEMA "chemotherapy based" and "chemotherapy free" protocols. Only de novo APL patients who achieved complete remission (CR) and completed the three consolidation cycles were enrolled into the analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: CPX-351 is approved for the treatment of therapy related acute myeloid leukemia (t-AML) and AML with myelodysplastic related changes (MRC-AML). The benefits of this treatment over standard chemotherapy has not been addressed in well matched cohorts of real-life patients.
Methods: Retrospective analysis of AML patients treated with CPX-351 as per routine practice.
The effectiveness of venetoclax (VEN) in relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (RR-AML) has not been well established. This retrospective, multicenter, observational database studied the effectiveness of VEN in a cohort of 51 RR-AML patients and evaluated for predictors of response and overall survival (OS). The median age was 68 years, most were at high risk, 61% received ≥2 therapies for AML, 49% had received hypomethylating agents, and ECOG was ≥2 in 52%.
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