The GIMEMA LAL2317 protocol investigated the frontline chemotherapy-blinatumomab combination in adult Philadelphia- CD19+ B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Ph- B-ALL) to improve minimal residual disease (MRD) response and clinical outcome. Two cycles of intravenous blinatumomab were administered after chemotherapy cycles 3 and 6. The primary endpoint was the rate of molecular MRD negativity following blinatumomab 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, autoinflammatory, somatic (VEXAS) is a haemato-inflammatory syndrome genetically defined by somatic mutations in the X-linked UBA1 gene, typically Val/Thr/Leu substitutions at the Met41 hotspot. Clinical manifestations are heterogeneous and refractory to most haemato-rheumatological treatments. To date, no guidelines exist for the management of VEXAS, and scarce is the evidence on methodology and clinical significance of longitudinal UBA1 clonal burden evaluation upon therapy.
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