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    Rodriguez, Roberto; Nakamura, Ryotaro; Palmer, Joycelynne M.; Parker, Pablo; Shayani, Sepideh; Nademanee, Auyaporn; Snyder, David; Pullarkat, Vinod; Kogut, Neil; Rosenthal, Joseph; Smith, Eileen; Karanes, Chatchada; O'Donnell, Margaret; Krishnan, Amrita Y.; Senitzer, David; Forman, Stephen J.

    Blood, 02/2010, Letnik: 115, Številka: 5
    Journal Article

    Combination tacrolimus and sirolimus graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis for allogeneic transplant in patients conditioned with a fractionated total body irradiation–based regimen has shown encouraging results. We studied this prophylaxis combination in 85 patients receiving a matched-sibling transplant conditioned with 3 different regimens:fludarabine-melphalan (n = 46); total body irradiation–etoposide (n = 28), and busulfan-cyclophosphamide (n = 11). The conditioning regimens were completed on day −4. Sirolimus and tacrolimus were started on day −3 to avoid overlap with conditioning therapy. All patients engrafted, with a median time to neutrophil engraftment of 15 days. The cumulative incidence of acute GVHD grades II to IV and III to IV was 43% and 19%, respectively, with no significant difference by conditioning regimen. The 2-year cumulative incidence of chronic GVHD was 46%. With a median follow-up of 26 months, disease-free survival was 58% and overall survival, 66%. The day-100 and 2-year nonrelapse mortality was 4.8% and 10.2%, respectively. The overall incidence of thrombotic microangiopathy was 19%, and it was significantly higher with busulfan/cyclophosphamide (55%, P = .005). Tacrolimus plus sirolimus is an effective combination for acute GVHD prophylaxis and is associated with very low nonrelapse mortality. Thrombotic microangiopathy is a significant complication with this regimen, particularly in patients receiving busulfan/cyclophosphamide.