A clinical study of haploid hematopoietic stem cells combined with third-party umbilical cord blood transplantation in the treatment of chronic granulomatous disease
Abstract：Objective To investigate the clinical efficacy of haploid hematopoietic stem cells (haplo-HSC) combined with third-party umbilical cord blood (tpCB) transplantation in the treatment of X-linked chronic granulomatous disease (X-CGD). Methods The clinical data of 26 boys with X-CGD were retrospectively analyzed who were admitted to the Sixth Medical Center of PLA General Hospital between April 2014 and March 2018. All the patients were treated with haplo-HSC combined with tpCB transplantation. The median age of the patients was 3.5 years. The donor was the father in 25 cases and an aunt in 1 case. Transplantation was 5/6 HLA-matched in 9 cases, 4/6 in 12 cases, and 3/6 in 5 cases. The patients received busulfan, cyclophosphamide, fludarabine, or anti-thymocyte globulin for myeloablative preconditioning. Cyclosporine A and mycophenolate mofetil were used for prevention of acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD). Then the patients were treated with haploid bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells combined with tpCB transplantation on day 1 and haploid peripheral hematopoietic stem cells on day 2. The counts of median donor total nucleated cells, CD34+ cells, and CD3+ cells were 14.6×108/kg, 5.86×106/kg, and 2.13×108/kg respectively. Results The median time to neutrophil and platelet engraftment was 12 and 23 days after transplantation respectively. Full donor hematopoietic chimerism was observed on day 30. Twenty-five cases were from haplo-HSC and 1 was from cord blood. No primary implant failure and implant dysfunction occurred, and secondary implant failure occurred in one case. The NADPH oxidase activity returned to normal one month after transplantation. The incidence of grade I-Ⅱ aGVHD and grade Ⅲ-IV aGVHD was 35% and 15% respectively. Chronic GVHD (cGVHD) of the skin occurred in one case, and no progression was observed after steroid administration. During the follow-up period of 6-51 months, 25 patients survived, of whom 24 were disease-free (23 patients without cGVHD and 1 with cGVHD of the skin) and NADPH oxidase activity returned to normal; one patient developed secondary implant failure but survived; one patient died of viral interstitial pneumonia 16 months after transplantation. The 5-year event-free survival rate and overall survival rate were 81%±12% and 89%±10% respectively. Conclusions Haplo-HSC combined with tpCB transplantation is one of the effective methods for the treatment of X-CGD in children.
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