Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) is potentially curative for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). However, the post-transplant relapse rate ranges from 40 to 70%, particularly with reduced intensity conditioning, and remains a major cause of treatment failure for these patients due to the limited efficacy of salvage therapy options. Strategies to mitigate this risk are urgently needed. In the past few years, the basic framework of post-transplant maintenance has been shaped by several clinical trials investigating targeted therapy, chemotherapy, and immunomodulatory therapies. Although the practice of post-transplant maintenance in AML has become more common, there remain challenges regarding the feasibility and efficacy of this strategy. Here, we review major developments in post-transplant maintenance in AML, along with ongoing and future planned studies in this area, outlining the limitations of available data and our future goals.
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Transplant Proc
January 2025
Department of Cardiology, Advanced Heart Failure and Heart Transplant Unit, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain; Health Research Institute of Asturias, ISPA, Oviedo, Spain.
Introduction: Real-life data on the long-term use of a maintenance immunosuppressive protocol in heart transplant patients using delayed Everolimus + Tacrolimus are scarce.
Methods: This is a retrospective study that included all heart transplant patients from 2011 to 2021 in two Spanish hospitals. In Hospital A, the preferred immunosuppressive strategy included Everolimus initiation at 2 months post-transplant combined with Tacrolimus and was compared with the results of Hospital B, where a standard Tacrolimus and Mycophenolate mofetil protocol was used.
Transplant Cell Ther
December 2024
Department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. Electronic address:
Patients with multiple myeloma (MM) without high-risk cytogenetic abnormalities are classified as having standard-risk MM (SRMM), and data focusing on their outcomes after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (autoHCT) are limited. To evaluate survival outcomes for patients with SRMM receiving autoHCT, and to elucidate factors that impact these outcomes. Single-center retrospective analysis that included consecutive MM patients who received upfront autoHCT between 2013 and 2021, had available cytogenetic information and had no high-risk chromosomal abnormalities on fluorescence in situ hybridization, defined as t(4;14), t(14;16), del(17p) or 1q21 gain or amplification.
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December 2024
Duke Transplant Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States.
Objective: Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy (CAV), a process of vascular damage accelerated by antibody-mediated rejection (AMR), is one of the leading causes of cardiac transplant failure. Proteasome inhibitors (PIs) are utilized to treat AMR, however PI-associated toxicity limits their therapeutic utility. Novel immunoproteasome inhibitors (IPIs) have higher specificity for immune cells and have not been investigated for AMR in cardiac transplant patients.
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December 2024
Tecnologico de Monterrey, Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Monterrey, Mexico.
Conditions such as congenital abnormalities, cancer, infections, and trauma can severely impact the integrity of the auricular cartilage, resulting in the need for a replacement structure. Current implants, carved from the patient's rib, involve multiple surgeries and carry risks of adverse events such as contamination, rejection, and reabsorption. Tissue engineering aims to develop lifelong auricular bioimplants using different methods, different cell types, growth factors and maintenance media formulations, and scaffolding materials compatible with the host.
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December 2024
Heidelberg Myeloma Center, Department of Internal Medicine V, Heidelberg University Hospital and Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Previously, addition of isatuximab (Isa) to standard-of-care lenalidomide-bortezomib-dexamethasone (RVd) in transplant-eligible patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma in the GMMG-HD7 trial (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT03617731) resulted in a significant increase of minimal residual disease negativity (MRD-) rates after induction therapy. A total of 662 patients were randomly assigned to receive induction therapy with Isa-RVd (n = 331) or RVd (n = 329), followed by single or tandem autologous stem-cell transplant and second random assignment to maintenance with lenalidomide alone or Isa-lenalidomide.
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