-
Article
Reassessing autotransplantation for acute myeloid leukaemia in first remission – a matched pair analysis of autologous marrow vs peripheral blood stem cells
The role of autologous stem cell transplantation in adult patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) in first remission is unclear, yet it has become standard treatment for myeloma and this paper explores whe...
-
Article
A comparison of toxicity following two different doses of cyclophosphamide for mobilization of peripheral blood progenitor cells in 116 multiple myeloma patients
High-dose cyclophosphamide (HDC) has been shown to be an effective regimen for collecting PBPC in multiple myeloma (MM) patients, but the optimal dose to be used remains controversial. Two historical cohorts o...
-
Article
Long-term outcome after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for advanced stage acute myeloblastic leukemia: a retrospective study of 379 patients reported to the Société Française de Greffe de Moelle (SFGM)
To assess the place of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) in the advanced stage of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), we retrospectively analyzed 379 consecutive patients who underwent alloge...
-
Article
Autologous blood cell vs marrow transplantation for acute myeloid leukemia in complete remission: an EBMT retrospective analysis
In order to compare autologous bone marrow (BMT) and blood cell transplantation (BCT) in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in first remission (CR1), we retrospectively reviewed the data of 1393 patien...
-
Article
The dismal outcome in patients with acute leukaemia who relapse after an autograft is improved if a second autograft or a matched allograft is performed
All patients receiving autografts for acute leukaemia in remission between 1 January 1981 and 31 December 1996 and reported to the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation and had a relapse, were in...
-
Article
Syngeneic transplantation in multiple myeloma – a case-matched comparison with autologous and allogeneic transplantation
Twenty-five patients with multiple myeloma received bone marrow grafts (n = 24) or peripheral blood stem cells (n = 1) from twin donors. The outcome was compared in a case-matched analysis to 125 patients who und...
-
Article
Chronic myeloid leukemia in first chronic phase not responding to α-interferon: outcome and prognostic factors after autologous transplantation
We report the data obtained from the European Bone Marrow Transplant Registry for patients with CML who received autologous transplantation (AT) in chronic phase (CP) because α-IFN was ineffective. Forty-one C...
-
Article
Allogeneic bone marrow transplant or second autograft in patients with acute leukemia who relapse after an autograft
Among 2752 patients with acute leukemia who had recurrent leukemia after autograft in remission and were reported to the EBMT, 94 underwent an allogeneic bone marrow transplant and 74 received a second autogra...
-
Article
Autologous stem cell transplantation in chronic myeloid leukemia: a single center experience
Between 1980 and 1996, we transplanted 72 patients with CML using blood stem cells collected at diagnosis before treatment and without any mobilization. The median age of patients at diagnosis was 47.5 years (...
-
Article
Stable mixed chimerism without relapse after related allogeneic umbilical cord blood transplantation in a child with severe aplastic anemia
Umbilical cord blood (UCB) cells from HLA-matched donors are used as an alternative to bone marrow for allogeneic transplantation and reports of successful UCB transplantation in patients with severe aplastic ...
-
Article
Factors influencing haemopoietic recovery following chemotherapy-mobilised autologous peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation for haematological malignancies: a retrospective analysis of a 10-year single institution experience
We retrospectively analysed the factors that influenced rate of haemopoietic recovery (HR) in 243 patients after transplantation with chemotherapy-mobilised autologous peripheral blood progenitor cells (PBPC)....
-
Article
Long-term results after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for chronic myelogenous leukemia in chronic phase: a report from the Chronic Leukemia Working Party of the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
The purpose of this study was to determine the long-term results of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for chronic myeloid leukemia. A retrospective analysis was carried out of the outcome of 373 consecuti...
-
Article
European results of matched unrelated donor bone marrow transplantation for chronic myeloid leukemia. Impact of HLA class II matching
We have retrospectively analyzed the impact of prognostic factors on the outcome of serologically HLA-matched unrelated donor (UD) BMT for CML. For this purpose, we have studied a cohort of 366 patients transp...
-
Article
Early allogeneic transplantation favorably influences the outcome of adult patients suffering from acute myeloid leukemia
Allogeneic BMT for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is presently a reference therapy. The indications for this therapy mainly rely upon prognostic factors, and their importance is constantly reassess...