Bone Marrow Transplant
November 2024
Front Immunol
February 2024
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.
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February 2024
Children with acquired hypocellular bone marrow failure of unknown cause (AHBMF) are usually diagnosed either with severe aplastic anemia (SAA) or refractory cytopenia of childhood (RCC). Patients with AHBMF who lack a matched donor and who failed or relapsed after immunosuppressive therapy (IST) need alternative therapies. Haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (haplo-HSCT) offers a curative treatment for these patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Studies addressing the role of haploidentical as alternative to HLA-matched donors for stem cell transplantation (SCT) often include patients with diverse hematological malignancies in different remission statuses.
Methods: We compared outcomes of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) undergoing SCT in second complete remission (CR2) from haploidentical (n = 25) versus HLA-matched donor (n = 51).
Results: Patients were equally distributed across both groups according to age, immunophenotype, time to and site of relapse, relapse risk-group allocation, and minimal residual disease (MRD) before SCT.