Publications by authors named "Piero Ferremi"
Background: Recommendations on eligibility criteria for donation of haematopoietic stem cells, management of collection of the cells and follow-up mainly concern unrelated donors. The aim of this study was to analyse the screening of related donors and collection practices at different Italian apheresis centres.
Materials And Methods: A questionnaire regarding eligibility criteria for related haematopoietic stem cell donors, their peripheral blood collections and early follow-up was sent to several apheresis units.
Background And Objectives: Uncontrolled-rate freezing (URF) techniques, which are fast and easy, could represent an attractive alternative to controlled-rate cryopreservation procedures which are time consuming and require high-level technical abilities. It was the aim of the present study to evaluate, on a routine basis, whether URF might spare primitive hematopoietic progenitors and maintain engrafting capacity.
Design And Methods: One-hundred and nineteen peripheral blood progenitor cells (PBPC) collections from 104 patients with hematologic malignancies were cryopreserved in bags, with an URF procedure, in a cryoprotectant solution consisting of PBS, HSA and 10% DMSO and stored in liquid nitrogen.
Purpose: High-dose therapy (HDT) and peripheral-blood stem-cell transplantation (PBSCT) in HIV-associated lymphoma (HIV-Ly) has been recently reported in selected patients. We describe the results of a multi-institutional program of HDT and PBSCT as salvage therapy in HIV-Ly responsive to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in unselected patients.
Patients And Methods: Patients with resistant or relapsed HIV-Ly after first-line chemotherapy (CT) underwent PBSC collection after a course of second-line CT or cyclophosphamide and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor.