TY - JOUR
T1 - Transplantation of umbilical cord blood after myeloablative therapy
T2 - Analysis of engraftment
AU - Wagner, John E
AU - Broxmeyer, H. E.
AU - Byrd, R. L.
AU - Zehnbauer, B.
AU - Schmeckpeper, B.
AU - Shah, N.
AU - Griffin, C.
AU - Emanuel, P. D.
AU - Zuckerman, K. S.
AU - Cooper, S.
AU - Carow, C.
AU - Bias, W.
AU - Santos, G. W.
PY - 1992/4/1
Y1 - 1992/4/1
N2 - The possibility that umbilical cord and placental blood from an HLA-identical sibling might produce stable donor-derived lymphohematopoietic engraftment was tested in a patient with juvenile chronic myelogenous leukemia (JCML). After conditioning with high-dose busulfan and cyclophosphamide, cryopreserved umbilical cord blood, containing 0.5 × 10s nucleated cells/kg and 2.7 × 104 colony forming units-granulocyte, macrophage (CFU-GM)/kg, was infused. A leukocyte count greater than 1,000/μL, absolute neutrophil count (ANC) greater than 500/μL, and platelet count greater than 20,000/μL (untransfused) were observed on days 39, 39, and 47 after transplantation, respectively. Donor cell engraftment was documented in the peripheral blood and bone marrow by cytogenetic analysis, restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) as early as day 21. Furthermore, the donor origin of each lymphohematopoietic lineage (ie, CD5+ T cells, CD19/20+ B cells, CFU-GM, and burst-forming unit-erythrocyte [BFU-E]) was confirmed. On day 200, assays of the peripheral blood and bone marrow showed an abnormal proliferation of CFU-GM at low seeding densities in the absence of exogenous growth factors, as well as a hypersensitivity to granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), both pathophysiologic characteristics of JCML. Recurrent disease was confirmed histologically on day 225. Together, these results demonstrate that umbilical cord blood contains sufficient numbers of hematopoietic stem cells necessary for the engraftment of leukemia patients treated with myeloablative therapy and that the detection of "spontaneous" CFU-GM and hypersensitivity to GM-CSF after treatment is a marker of residual or recurrent disease in patients with JCML.
AB - The possibility that umbilical cord and placental blood from an HLA-identical sibling might produce stable donor-derived lymphohematopoietic engraftment was tested in a patient with juvenile chronic myelogenous leukemia (JCML). After conditioning with high-dose busulfan and cyclophosphamide, cryopreserved umbilical cord blood, containing 0.5 × 10s nucleated cells/kg and 2.7 × 104 colony forming units-granulocyte, macrophage (CFU-GM)/kg, was infused. A leukocyte count greater than 1,000/μL, absolute neutrophil count (ANC) greater than 500/μL, and platelet count greater than 20,000/μL (untransfused) were observed on days 39, 39, and 47 after transplantation, respectively. Donor cell engraftment was documented in the peripheral blood and bone marrow by cytogenetic analysis, restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) as early as day 21. Furthermore, the donor origin of each lymphohematopoietic lineage (ie, CD5+ T cells, CD19/20+ B cells, CFU-GM, and burst-forming unit-erythrocyte [BFU-E]) was confirmed. On day 200, assays of the peripheral blood and bone marrow showed an abnormal proliferation of CFU-GM at low seeding densities in the absence of exogenous growth factors, as well as a hypersensitivity to granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), both pathophysiologic characteristics of JCML. Recurrent disease was confirmed histologically on day 225. Together, these results demonstrate that umbilical cord blood contains sufficient numbers of hematopoietic stem cells necessary for the engraftment of leukemia patients treated with myeloablative therapy and that the detection of "spontaneous" CFU-GM and hypersensitivity to GM-CSF after treatment is a marker of residual or recurrent disease in patients with JCML.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 1348434
AN - SCOPUS:0026559506
SN - 0006-4971
VL - 79
SP - 1874
EP - 1881
JO - Blood
JF - Blood
IS - 7
ER -
