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Fludarabine‐containing regimens severely impair peripheral blood stem cells mobilization and collection in acute myeloid leukaemia patients
Author(s) -
Visani G.,
Lemoli R. M.,
Tosi P.,
Martinelli G.,
Testoni N.,
Ricci P.,
Piccaluga P. P.,
Pastano R.,
Leopardi G.,
Dizdari A.,
Motta M. R.,
Rizzi S.,
Tura S.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
british journal of haematology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.907
H-Index - 186
eISSN - 1365-2141
pISSN - 0007-1048
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1999.01379.x
Subject(s) - peripheral blood stem cells , fludarabine , medicine , myeloid leukaemia , mobilization , stem cell , peripheral blood , hematology , oncology , immunology , chemotherapy , hematopoietic stem cell transplantation , cyclophosphamide , transplantation , biology , genetics , archaeology , history
We studied the effects of an intensified induction/consolidation treatment containing fludarabine (ICE/FLAN/FLAN) on the mobilization and collection of peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) in 31 consecutive untreated acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) patients. The complete remission (CR) rate was comparable to classic inductions (68% after ICE; 84% after ICE‐FLAN I). To mobilize PBSC, 19 patients received 10 μg/kg/d of granulocyte‐colony stimulating factor (G‐CSF) starting at day 13 after FLAN, 13 (69%) of whom were found to be nonmobilizers. When a second G‐CSF administration was performed in 10/13 patients mobilization was either not achieved (8/10) or was considered insufficient (<1 × 10 6 CD34 + cells/kg) (2/10) and all 13 were subsequently submitted to bone marrow harvest. The harvest was considered adequate in 12/13 (92%) patients and autologous BMT (ABMT) has so far been performed in 10/12 cases with a mean of 8.6 × 10 8 /kg nucleated reinfused cells. The median times to neutrophil and platelet recovery after ABMT did not significantly differ from those of two previous series of patients treated with ABMT without fludarabine‐containing regimens. Adequate amounts of PBSC were obtained in 6/19 (31%) patients, who were then reinfused. Median times for platelet recovery were significantly longer than in a previous series of 26 AML cases reinfused with PBSC after treatment with the ICE‐NOVIA induction/consolidation regimen (125 v 20 d to 20 × 10 9 plt/l, P < 0.02; 218 v 37 d to 50 × 10 9 plt/l, P < 0.02). In addition, times for platelet recovery after ICE/FLAN/FLAN were not significantly different from those in a previous group treated with ABMT performed after ICE/NOVIA,without fludarabine. We conclude that fludarabine‐containing regimens severely impair mobilization and collection of PBSC in AML patients and seem unsuitable when PBSC autotransplantation is programmed.