Early hematopoietic cell transplantation for familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in a regional treatment network in Japan

© 2024. Japanese Society of Hematology..

Familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHLH) is a fatal hyperinflammation syndrome arising from the genetic defect of perforin-mediated cytolysis. Curative hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is needed before development of central nervous system (CNS) disease. We studied treatment outcomes of 13 patients (FHLH2 n = 11, FHLH3 n = 2) consecutively diagnosed from 2011 to 2022 by flow cytometric screening for non-myeloablative HCT in a regional treatment network in Kyushu, Japan. One patient with a novel PRF1 variant escaped screening, but all patients with FHLH2 reached diagnosis and 8 of them received HCT until 3 and 9 months of age, respectively. The earliest HCT was conducted 65 days after birth. Three pretransplant deaths occurred in newborns with liver failure at diagnosis. Ten posttransplant patients have remained disease-free, 7 of whom had no neurological involvement. Time from first etoposide infusion to HCT was shorter in patients without CNS disease or bleeding than in patients with those factors (median [range] days: 62 [50-81] vs. 122 [89-209], p = 0.016). Six of 9 unrelated patients had a PRF1 c.1090_1091delCT variant. These results suggest that the critical times to start etoposide and HCT are within 3 months after birth and during etoposide control, respectively. Newborn screening may increase the percentage of disease-free survivors without complications.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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International journal of hematology - (2024) vom: 20. März

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ishimura, Masataka [VerfasserIn]
Eguchi, Katsuhide [VerfasserIn]
Sonoda, Motoshi [VerfasserIn]
Tanaka, Tamami [VerfasserIn]
Shiraishi, Akira [VerfasserIn]
Sakai, Yasunari [VerfasserIn]
Yasumi, Takahiro [VerfasserIn]
Miyamoto, Takayuki [VerfasserIn]
Voskoboinik, Ilia [VerfasserIn]
Hashimoto, Kunio [VerfasserIn]
Matsumoto, Shirou [VerfasserIn]
Ozono, Shuichi [VerfasserIn]
Moritake, Hiroshi [VerfasserIn]
Takada, Hidetoshi [VerfasserIn]
Ohga, Shouichi [VerfasserIn]

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Hematopoietic cell transplantation
Hyperinflammation
Journal Article
Perforin
Rapid diagnosis

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Date Revised 20.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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doi:

10.1007/s12185-024-03721-3

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NLM369967240