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    Haematologica. 2004 May 1;89(5):ECR12. Print 2004 May.

    Fatal immune-mediated pancytopenia and a TRALI-like syndrome associated with high titers of recipient-type antibodies against donor-derived peripheral blood cells after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation following dose reduced conditioning.

    Knop S, Bux J, Kroeber SM, Bader P, Hebart H, Kanz L, Einsele H.

    Tuebingen University Hospital, Dept. of Hematology/Oncology, Otfried-Mueller-Str. 10, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany. stefan.knop@med.uni-tuebingen.de

    Pancytopenia occurring after bone marrow transplantation is a rare complication. A 47 year old patient with progression of multiple myeloma after standard therapy received an allogeneic marrow graft from a matched unrelated donor. The non-myeloablative conditioning regimen consisted of fludarabine, cyclophosphamide, rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin and total body irradiation. GVHD prophylaxis consisted of cyclosporine. Neutrophil engraftment was as expected and the patient was discharged without signs of acute GvHD. On day +34 the patient presented with clinical and laboratory findings consistent with severe pancytopenia. Antibodies against red cells, platelets, lymphocytes and granulocytes were detected in extremely high titers. Immune-mediated pancytopenia was refractory on multiple immunosuppressive treatment strategies. Proliferation of polyclonal plasma cells of recipient-type that was documented postmortem, was most likely responsible for excessive antibody formation.

    PMID: 15136241 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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