Multicenter experience in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for serious complications of common variable immunodeficiency - 03/04/15
, Marta Rizzi, MD, PhD a, ⁎ 
on behalf of the
Inborn Errors Working Party of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation and the European Society for Immunodeficiency
Abstract |
Background |
Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is usually well controlled with immunoglobulin substitution and immunomodulatory drugs. A subgroup of patients has a complicated disease course with high mortality. For these patients, investigation of more invasive, potentially curative treatments, such as allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), is warranted.
Objective |
We sought to define the outcomes of HSCT for patients with CVID.
Methods |
Retrospective data were collected from 14 centers worldwide on patients with CVID receiving HSCT between 1993 and 2012.
Results |
Twenty-five patients with CVID, which was defined according to international criteria, aged 8 to 50 years at the time of transplantation were included in the study. The indication for HSCT was immunologic dysregulation in the majority of patients. The overall survival rate was 48%, and the survival rate for patients undergoing transplantation for lymphoma was 83%. The major causes of death were treatment-refractory graft-versus-host disease accompanied by poor immune reconstitution and infectious complications. Immunoglobulin substitution was stopped in 50% of surviving patients. In 92% of surviving patients, the condition constituting the indication for HSCT resolved.
Conclusion |
This multicenter study demonstrated that HSCT in patients with CVID was beneficial in most surviving patients; however, there was a high mortality associated with the procedure. Therefore this therapeutic approach should only be considered in carefully selected patients in whom there has been extensive characterization of the immunologic and/or genetic defect underlying the CVID diagnosis. Criteria for patient selection, refinement of the transplantation protocol, and timing are needed for an improved outcome.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Key words : Common variable immunodeficiency, hypogammaglobulinemia, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, immunologic reconstitution, immunoglobulin substitution/replacement, outcome, mortality, survival
Abbreviations used : aGvHD, BM, cGvHD, CMV, CVID, ESID, GvHD, HCT-CI, HSCT, MAC, PID, RIC
Plan
| Supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF 01 EO 0803). C.L. is supported by a clinical fellowship from the Dutch Cancer Society (2013-5883). |
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| Disclosure of potential conflict of interest: C. Wehr has received research and travel support from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. C. Lindemans has received research support from the Dutch Cancer Society (2013-5883). A. Schulz is employed by Medical Center Ulm. M. Recher has received research support from a Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship Grant (PP00P3_144863). U. Baumann has received research support from EURO-PADnet (FP7/2007-2011). K.-W. Sykora has received travel support from EUSA Pharma. S. Goldacker has received research support from Octapharma. A. Fielding has received consultancy fees from Amgen. S. Seneviratne is employed by the Royal Free Hospital, London. K. E. Sullivan has received consultancy fees from the Immune Deficiency Foundation, is employed by UpToDate, and has received research support from Baxter. B. Grimbacher has received research support from BMBF (01E01303 and 012X1306F) and the European Union (EU); is employed by UCL and UKL-FR; has received research support from BMBF (01E01303 and 012X1306F), the EU, and Helmholtz (DZIF 8000805-3); and has received lecture fees from CSL, Baxter, and Biotest. H.-H. Peter has provided expert testimony for Pfizer and has received lecture fees. K. Warnatz has received lecture fees from Baxter, GlaxoSmithKline, CSL Behring, Pfizer, Biotest, Novartis Pharma, Stallergenes AG, Roche, Meridian HealthComms, Octapharma, and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology; has received payment for manuscript preparation from UCB Pharma; and has received payment for development of educational presentations from European Society for Immunodeficiency. M. Rizzi has received research support from Pfizer (Europe Aspire Award [10/2013-09/2014]) and Novartis (Stiftung für Klinische Forschung Grant [11/2014-10-2016]). The rest of the authors declare that they have no relevant conflicts of interest. |
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