Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Program, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Department of Pediatrics, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Program, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Department of Medicine, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Transplant Cell Ther. 2021 Aug;27(8):667.e1-667.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.jtct.2021.05.022. Epub 2021 May 30.
Although acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) and chronic GVHD (cGVHD) are known causes of morbidity and mortality after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT), the syndrome of late aGVHD is less well understood, particularly in children. We aimed to characterize the clinical features and response to therapy of late aGVHD and cGVHD by retrospectively reviewing 573 consecutive patients age <18 years who underwent their first allogeneic HCT at the University of Minnesota. We included patients with de novo late aGVHD (ie, first occurrence of aGVHD after day +100 post-HCT) and cGVHD. We retrospectively scored cGVHD cases based on the 2014 National Institutes of Health guidelines. At 3 years, 9 patients (2%) had developed late aGVHD, 16 (3%) had overlap cGVHD, and 7 had (1%) classic cGVHD. No cases of joint or genital cGVHD were observed. The overall response to therapy at 6 months was 78% (95% confidence interval [CI], 40% to 97%) after late aGVHD and 43% (95% CI, 23% to 66%) after cGVHD. Higher nonrelapse mortality from day +100 was seen in patients with cGVHD but not in those with late aGVHD compared with patients without GVHD (hazard ratio, 3.6 [95% CI, 1.3 to 10.0] and 1.6 [95% CI, 0.2 to 11.7], respectively). We found variable organ involvement and treatment responses between patients with late aGVHD and those with cGVHD in a single-center pediatric cohort. Further research is needed to investigate the risks and clinical features of late aGVHD and cGVHD in larger cohorts to better understand how to tailor even more effective GVHD preventive and therapeutic approaches in children.
虽然急性移植物抗宿主病(aGVHD)和慢性移植物抗宿主病(cGVHD)是异基因造血细胞移植(HCT)后发病率和死亡率的已知原因,但人们对晚期 aGVHD 的综合征了解较少,尤其是在儿童中。我们通过回顾性分析在明尼苏达大学接受首次异基因 HCT 的 573 例年龄<18 岁的连续患者,旨在描述晚期 aGVHD 和 cGVHD 的临床特征和治疗反应。我们纳入了新发晚期 aGVHD(即 HCT 后第+100 天首次发生 aGVHD)和 cGVHD 的患者。我们根据 2014 年美国国立卫生研究院的指南对 cGVHD 病例进行了回顾性评分。3 年后,9 例(2%)患者出现晚期 aGVHD,16 例(3%)患者出现重叠 cGVHD,7 例(1%)患者出现经典 cGVHD。未观察到关节或生殖器 cGVHD。晚期 aGVHD 治疗 6 个月后的总体反应率为 78%(95%置信区间 [CI],40%至 97%),cGVHD 为 43%(95% CI,23%至 66%)。与无 GVHD 的患者相比,cGVHD 患者从第+100 天开始的非复发死亡率较高,但晚期 aGVHD 患者则没有(风险比,3.6[95%CI,1.3 至 10.0]和 1.6[95%CI,0.2 至 11.7])。在单中心儿科队列中,我们发现晚期 aGVHD 患者和 cGVHD 患者之间的器官受累和治疗反应存在差异。需要进一步研究以在更大的队列中调查晚期 aGVHD 和 cGVHD 的风险和临床特征,以便更好地了解如何针对儿童量身定制更有效的 GVHD 预防和治疗方法。