Allogeneic hemopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) for Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome: a report of the Spanish Working Party for Blood and Marrow Transplantation in Children (GETMON)

Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2007 Sep;24(6):393-402. doi: 10.1080/08880010701454404.

Abstract

Allogeneic stem cell transplantation is the only curative treatment for Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome. The authors retrospectively analyzed the outcome with this procedure in 13 patients with severe Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome transplanted in 5 Spanish centers from 1989 to 2006. A patient was transplanted twice from the same donor due to a late engraftment failure. Age at transplant ranged from 7 to 192 months (median 30 months). There were 10 matched donors (3 related and 7 unrelated), 2 mismatched unrelated, and 1 haploidentical. Conditioning regimen consisted of busulfan and cyclophosphamide (BuCy) in 11 cases and fludarabine and melfalan (1) or BuCy (1). ATG was added in transplants from non-genetically matched donors. GvHD prophylaxis consisted of cyclosporine and methotrexate in most patients plus T-cell depletion in the haploidentical HSCT. Nine of the 13 transplanted patients are alive with complete clinical, immunologic, and hematologic recovery 8-204 months (median 101 months) after HSCT. Eight surviving patients had been transplanted from matched donors (3 related and 5 unrelated) and 1 from a haploidentical donor. Four patients died, 2 transplanted from matched donors (1 from acute GvHD and organ failure, 1 from a lymphoproliferative disorder after a second transplant), and 2 transplanted from mismatched unrelated donors (1 from acute GvHD and organ failure, 1 from graft failure and infection). Allogeneic hemopoietic stem cell transplantation must be utilized in all patients with severe Wisckott-Aldrich syndrome, using the most suitable graft variant for each patient.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study
  • Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

  • Antilymphocyte Serum / therapeutic use
  • Busulfan / therapeutic use
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Cyclophosphamide / therapeutic use
  • Cyclosporine / therapeutic use
  • Graft vs Host Disease / mortality
  • Graft vs Host Disease / prevention & control
  • HLA Antigens / genetics
  • HLA Antigens / immunology
  • Haplotypes
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / mortality
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / statistics & numerical data*
  • Histocompatibility
  • Humans
  • Immunosuppressive Agents / therapeutic use
  • Infant
  • Living Donors
  • Lymphocyte Depletion
  • Male
  • Melphalan / therapeutic use
  • Multiple Organ Failure / mortality
  • Postoperative Complications / mortality
  • Reoperation
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Spain / epidemiology
  • T-Lymphocytes
  • Transplantation Conditioning
  • Transplantation, Homologous / mortality
  • Transplantation, Homologous / statistics & numerical data
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Vidarabine / analogs & derivatives
  • Vidarabine / therapeutic use
  • Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome / epidemiology
  • Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome / surgery*

Substances

  • Antilymphocyte Serum
  • HLA Antigens
  • Immunosuppressive Agents
  • Cyclosporine
  • Cyclophosphamide
  • Vidarabine
  • Busulfan
  • fludarabine
  • Melphalan