Contemporaneous appearance, 18 years after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, of myelodysplastic syndrome in the patient and the donor

Bone Marrow Transplant. 2004 Apr;33(8):859-61. doi: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1704417.

Abstract

We report the case of the development of two different stages of the same clonal disorder in two patients sharing the same bone marrow due to a previous bone marrow allotransplant. The transplanted patient developed severe aplasia with myeloid blasts, different from those of the previously cured leukemia. Chimerism evaluated by microsatellite analyses confirmed a full donor phenotype. At the same time, the donor of the bone marrow transplantation developed a refractory anemia with excess blasts. We speculate on the presence of an undetectable pre-existing pathological clone in the transplanted bone marrow, which have evolved in the two patients.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Bone Marrow Transplantation / adverse effects*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Acute / therapy
  • Myelodysplastic Syndromes / etiology*
  • Myelodysplastic Syndromes / genetics
  • Myelodysplastic Syndromes / pathology
  • Siblings
  • Time Factors
  • Tissue Donors*
  • Transplantation Chimera / genetics
  • Transplantation, Homologous