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2. A complex case of young child with ADHD, developmental delay who developed seronegative autoimmune encephalitis exacerbated by stimulants
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M. Saliba, A. Wilton, K. Hagen, and M. Romanowicz
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Seronegative autoimmune encephalitis ,Stimulants ,Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry ,RC321-571 - Abstract
Autoimmune encephalitis (AE) is a group of disorders characterized by a wide clinical spectrum ranging from the typical limbic encephalitis to more complex neuropsychiatric symptoms including abnormal movements, psychosis, deficits in memory and cognition, dysautonomia, seizures, or coma. Psychiatric symptoms can occur early in the disease progress or manifest during its course. These symptoms are challenging and often slow down the diagnosis of AE. This is a crucial aspect considering that early diagnosis and management of AE are critical for a good outcome. However, there is a lack in studies outlining the exact symptomatology and specific appropriate care that would allow clinicians to achieve an early diagnosis and management. Additionally, AE in children mostly presents with neuropsychiatric symptoms and diagnosis is especially challenging in kids because of their limited capacity in describing their symptoms, the normal childhood behavioral changes and the possibility of a comorbid psychiatric diagnosis. We present a complex case of seronegative AE with comorbid ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and anxiety in a young six-year-old girl.
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- 2023
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3. SIRPα Mismatch Is Associated With Relapse Protection and Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease After Related Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Lymphoid Malignancies
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Rima M. Saliba, Samer A. Srour, Uri Greenbaum, Qing Ma, Yudith Carmazzi, Michael Moller, Janet Wood, Stefan O. Ciurea, Piyanuch Kongtim, Gabriela Rondon, Dan Li, Supawee Saengboon, Amin M. Alousi, Katayoun Rezvani, Elizabeth J. Shpall, Kai Cao, Richard E. Champlin, and Jun Zou
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signal regulatory protein alpha ,mismatch ,relapse protection ,cGVHD ,HSCT ,lymphoid malignancies ,Immunologic diseases. Allergy ,RC581-607 - Abstract
Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) is a potentially curative therapy for hematologic malignancies. Alloreactivity after HSCT is known to be mediated by adaptive immune cells expressing rearranging receptors. Recent studies demonstrated that the innate immune system could likewise sense the non-self signals and subsequently enhance the alloimmune response. We recently demonstrated that the donor/recipient mismatch of signal regulatory protein α (SIRPα), an immunoglobulin receptor exclusively expressed on innate cells, is associated with a higher risk of cGVHD and relapse protection in a cohort of acute myeloid leukemia patients who underwent allo-HSCT. Whether these effects also occur in other hematologic malignancies remains unclear. In the present study, we compared outcomes by SIRPα match status in a cohort of 310 patients who received allo-HSCT from an HLA matched-related donor for the treatment of lymphoid malignancies. Multivariable analysis showed that SIRPα mismatch was associated with a significantly higher rate of cGVHD (hazard ratio [HR] 1.8, P= .002), cGVHD requiring systemic immunosuppressive therapy (HR 1.9, P= .005), a lower rate of disease progression (HR 0.5, P= .003) and improved progression-free survival (HR 0.5, P= .001). Notably, the effects of SIRPα mismatch were observed only in the patients who achieved >95% of donor T-cell chimerism. The mismatch in SIRPα is associated with favorable relapse protection and concurrently increased risk of cGVHD in patients who undergo allo-HSCT for lymphoid malignancies, and the optimal donor could be selected based on the finding of the study to mitigate the risk of GVHD and relapse.
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- 2022
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4. Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection Modulates the Immune Response and Increases Mice Resistance to Cryptococcus gattii
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Eluzia C. Peres-Emidio, Gustavo J. C. Freitas, Marliete C. Costa, Ludmila Gouveia-Eufrasio, Lívia M. V. Silva, Anderson P. N. Santos, Paulo H. F. Carmo, Camila B. Brito, Raquel D. N. Arifa, Rafael W. Bastos, Noelly Q. Ribeiro, Lorena V. N. Oliveira, Monique F. Silva, Tatiane A. Paixão, Alessandra M. Saliba, Caio T. Fagundes, Daniele G. Souza, and Daniel A. Santos
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Cryptococcosis ,coinfection ,Cryptococcus gattii ,Pseudomonas aeruginosa ,iNOS ,Microbiology ,QR1-502 - Abstract
Cryptococcosis is an invasive mycosis caused by Cryptococcus spp. that affects the lungs and the central nervous system (CNS). Due to the severity of the disease, it may occur concomitantly with other pathogens, as a coinfection. Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa), an opportunistic pathogen, can also cause pneumonia. In this work, we studied the interaction of C. gattii (Cg) and Pa, both in vitro and in vivo. Pa reduced growth of Cg by the secretion of inhibitory molecules in vitro. Macrophages previously stimulated with Pa presented increased fungicidal activity. In vivo, previous Pa infection reduced morbidity and delayed the lethality due to cryptococcosis. This phenotype was correlated with the decreased fungal burden in the lungs and brain, showing a delay of Cg translocation to the CNS. Also, there was increased production of IL-1β, CXCL-1, and IL-10, together with the influx of iNOS-positive macrophages and neutrophils to the lungs. Altogether, Pa turned the lung into a hostile environment to the growth of a secondary pathogen, making it difficult for the fungus to translocate to the CNS. Further, iNOS inhibition reverted the Pa protective phenotype, suggesting its important role in the coinfection. Altogether, the primary Pa infection leads to balanced pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory responses during Cg infection. This response provided better control of cryptococcosis and was decisive for the mild evolution of the disease and prolonged survival of coinfected mice in a mechanism dependent on iNOS.
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- 2022
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5. Impact of graft composition on outcomes of haploidentical bone marrow stem cell transplantation
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Rima M. Saliba, Lauren Veltri, Gabriela Rondon, Julianne Chen, Gheath Al-Atrash, Amin Alousi, Charles Martinez, LaJerald Augustine, Chitra M. Hosing, Betul Oran, Katayoun Rezvani, Elisabeth J. Shpall, Partow Kebriaei, Issa F. Khouri, Uday Popat, Richard E. Champlin, and Stefan O. Ciurea
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Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs ,RC633-647.5 - Published
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6. Characteristics of Graft-Versus-Host Disease (GvHD) After Post-Transplantation Cyclophosphamide Versus Conventional GvHD Prophylaxis
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Rima M. Saliba, Amin M. Alousi, Joseph Pidala, Mukta Arora, Stephen R. Spellman, Michael T. Hemmer, Tao Wang, Camille Abboud, Sairah Ahmed, Joseph H. Antin, Amer Beitinjaneh, David Buchbinder, Michael Byrne, Jean-Yves Cahn, Hannah Choe, Rabi Hanna, Peiman Hematti, Rammurti T. Kamble, Carrie L. Kitko, Mary Laughlin, Lazaros Lekakis, Margaret L. MacMillan, Rodrigo Martino, Parinda A. Mehta, Taiga Nishihori, Sagar S. Patel, Miguel-Angel Perales, Hemalatha G. Rangarajan, Olov Ringdén, Joseph Rosenthal, Bipin N. Savani, Kirk R. Schultz, Sachiko Seo, Takanori Teshima, Marjolein van der Poel, Leo F. Verdonck, Daniel Weisdorf, Baldeep Wirk, Jean A. Yared, Jeffrey Schriber, Richard E. Champlin, and Stefan O. Ciurea
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Male ,Transplantation ,Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation ,Graft vs Host Disease ,Humans ,Molecular Medicine ,Immunology and Allergy ,Female ,Cell Biology ,Hematology ,Cyclophosphamide ,Antilymphocyte Serum ,Retrospective Studies - Abstract
Post-transplantation cyclophosphamide (PTCy) has been shown to effectively control graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) in haploidentical (Haplo) transplantations. In this retrospective registry study, we compared GvHD organ distribution, severity, and outcomes in patients with GvHD occurring after Haplo transplantation with PTCy GvHD prophylaxis (Haplo/PTCy) versus HLA-matched unrelated donor transplantation with conventional prophylaxis (MUD/conventional). We evaluated 2 cohorts: patients with grade 2 to 4 acute GvHD (aGvHD) including 264 and 1163 recipients of Haplo and MUD transplants; and patients with any chronic GvHD (cGvHD) including 206 and 1018 recipients of Haplo and MUD transplants, respectively. In comparison with MUD/conventional transplantation ± antithymocyte globulin (ATG), grade 3-4 aGvHD (28% versus 39%, P = .001), stage 3-4 lower gastrointestinal (GI) tract aGvHD (14% versus 21%, P = .01), and chronic GI GvHD (21% versus 31%, P = .006) were less common after Haplo/PTCy transplantation. In patients with grade 2-4 aGvHD, cGcHD rate after Haplo/PTCY was also lower (hazard ratio [HR] = .4, P < .001) in comparison with MUD/conventional transplantation without ATG in the nonmyeloablative conditioning setting. Irrespective of the use of ATG, non-relapse mortality rate was lower (HR = .6, P = .01) after Haplo/PTCy transplantation, except for transplants that were from a female donor into a male recipient. In patients with cGvHD, irrespective of ATG use, Haplo/PTCy transplantation had lower non-relapse mortality rates (HR = .6, P = .04). Mortality rate was higher (HR = 1.6, P = .03) within, but not after (HR = .9, P = .6) the first 6 months after cGvHD diagnosis. Our results suggest that PTCy-based GvHD prophylaxis mitigates the development of GI GvHD and may translate into lower GvHD-related non-relapse mortality rate.
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- 2022
7. Organoleptic and physico-chemical evaluation of capretto baladi goats: a value-added meat alternative in an extensive rearing system
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S. Abi Saab, F. Esseily, M. Saliba, and P.Y. Aad
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Capretto ,milk-fed ,value-added meat ,meat properties ,Technology ,Science - Abstract
Abi Saab, S. Esseily, F. Saliba, M. and Aad P. 2017. Organoleptic and physico-chemical evaluation of capretto baladi goats: a value-added meat alternative in an extensive rearing system. Lebanese Science Journal. 18(1): 73-80. The local Baladi breed is considered a common source of fresh meat in Lebanon. Due to the extensive rearing system and the scarcity of pasture, kids resulting from multiple births are not reared, though cultural preference for young meat may valorize these twin kids as an expensive delicacy. Few studies observed growth parameters, physical-chemical and sensory properties of meat in Baladi kids. Therefore, 24 male Baladi kids were fed milk ad libitum post-natally for 24 days, after which 9 were randomly selected and fed pasture grass ad libitum and goat milk (Control), and 15 were fed only milk (Capretto) twice per day. Animals were slaughtered at 4, 6 and 8 weeks of age and body organs compared. Feed intake was measured by weighing kids pre- and post- feeding, and body weight measured twice per week. Meat chemical properties were total ether-extracted fat, kjeldhal protein, and minerals. Meat organoleptic properties were evaluated by consumers for color, taste, odor, richness, juiciness, tenderness and overall appreciation, as cooked by housewives or professionals. Data were analyzed as a CRD using SPSS 10.0 and presented as LSMeans ± SEM. Results showed that Capretto consumed increasing levels of milk from 4 to 8 weeks, with ADG decreasing (P < 0.05) from 4 to 8 weeks. Capretto showed 5% less (P0.05) between Capretto and control, although capretto showed lower (p
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- 2017
8. High level of DNA
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Fadi B. Choucair, Eliane G. Rachkidi, Georges C. Raad, Elias M. Saliba, Nina S. Zeidan, Rania A. Jounblat, Imad F. Abou Jaoude, and Mira M. Hazzouri
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Sperm DNA fragmentation ,Sperm chromatin dispersion test ,Male infertility ,Nuclear quality ,Medicine (General) ,R5-920 ,Reproduction ,QH471-489 - Abstract
Assessment of male fertility has been based on routine semen analysis established by the World Health Organization (WHO), evaluating sperm concentration, motility and morphology. Actually, these parameters become less reliable markers to evaluate male fertility potential. Therefore, a search for better markers has led to an increased focus on sperm chromatin integrity testing in fertility work-up and assisted reproductive technologies (ART). In this study, we evaluate sperm DNA fragmentation in 185 Lebanese infertile patients attending fertility clinics all over the country, in comparison with 30 control men of proven fertility, using the sperm chromatin dispersion test (SCD). Our results showed a significantly higher sperm DNA fragmentation in infertile group compared to control group (20.62% vs 12.96%; p
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- 2016
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9. Deep Reinforcement Learning with Uncertain Data for Real-Time Stormwater System Control and Flood Mitigation
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Sami M. Saliba, Benjamin D. Bowes, Stephen Adams, Peter A. Beling, and Jonathan L. Goodall
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real-time control ,reinforcement learning ,smart stormwater systems ,urban flooding ,Hydraulic engineering ,TC1-978 ,Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes ,TD201-500 - Abstract
Flooding in many areas is becoming more prevalent due to factors such as urbanization and climate change, requiring modernization of stormwater infrastructure. Retrofitting standard passive systems with controllable valves/pumps is promising, but requires real-time control (RTC). One method of automating RTC is reinforcement learning (RL), a general technique for sequential optimization and control in uncertain environments. The notion is that an RL algorithm can use inputs of real-time flood data and rainfall forecasts to learn a policy for controlling the stormwater infrastructure to minimize measures of flooding. In real-world conditions, rainfall forecasts and other state information are subject to noise and uncertainty. To account for these characteristics of the problem data, we implemented Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG), an RL algorithm that is distinguished by its capability to handle noise in the input data. DDPG implementations were trained and tested against a passive flood control policy. Three primary cases were studied: (i) perfect data, (ii) imperfect rainfall forecasts, and (iii) imperfect water level and forecast data. Rainfall episodes (100) that caused flooding in the passive system were selected from 10 years of observations in Norfolk, Virginia, USA; 85 randomly selected episodes were used for training and the remaining 15 unseen episodes served as test cases. Compared to the passive system, all RL implementations reduced flooding volume by 70.5% on average, and performed within a range of 5%. This suggests that DDPG is robust to noisy input data, which is essential knowledge to advance the real-world applicability of RL for stormwater RTC.
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- 2020
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10. Gridded global surface ozone metrics for atmospheric chemistry model evaluation
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E. D. Sofen, D. Bowdalo, M. J. Evans, F. Apadula, P. Bonasoni, M. Cupeiro, R. Ellul, I. E. Galbally, R. Girgzdiene, S. Luppo, M. Mimouni, A. C. Nahas, M. Saliba, and K. Tørseth
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Environmental sciences ,GE1-350 ,Geology ,QE1-996.5 - Abstract
The concentration of ozone at the Earth's surface is measured at many locations across the globe for the purposes of air quality monitoring and atmospheric chemistry research. We have brought together all publicly available surface ozone observations from online databases from the modern era to build a consistent data set for the evaluation of chemical transport and chemistry-climate (Earth System) models for projects such as the Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative and Aer-Chem-MIP. From a total data set of approximately 6600 sites and 500 million hourly observations from 1971–2015, approximately 2200 sites and 200 million hourly observations pass screening as high-quality sites in regionally representative locations that are appropriate for use in global model evaluation. There is generally good data volume since the start of air quality monitoring networks in 1990 through 2013. Ozone observations are biased heavily toward North America and Europe with sparse coverage over the rest of the globe. This data set is made available for the purposes of model evaluation as a set of gridded metrics intended to describe the distribution of ozone concentrations on monthly and annual timescales. Metrics include the moments of the distribution, percentiles, maximum daily 8-hour average (MDA8), sum of means over 35 ppb (daily maximum 8-h; SOMO35), accumulated ozone exposure above a threshold of 40 ppbv (AOT40), and metrics related to air quality regulatory thresholds. Gridded data sets are stored as netCDF-4 files and are available to download from the British Atmospheric Data Centre (doi:10.5285/08fbe63d-fa6d-4a7a-b952-5932e3ab0452). We provide recommendations to the ozone measurement community regarding improving metadata reporting to simplify ongoing and future efforts in working with ozone data from disparate networks in a consistent manner.
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11. Donor NKG2C Copy Number: An Independent Predictor for CMV Reactivation After Double Cord Blood Transplantation
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Kai Cao, David Marin, Takuye Sekine, Gabriela Rondon, Weicheng Zhao, Nathaniel T. Smith, May Daher, Qing Wang, Li Li, Rima M. Saliba, Ravi Pingali, Uday Popat, Chitra Hosing, Amanda Olson, Betul Oran, Rafet Basar, Rohtesh S. Mehta, Richard Champlin, Elizabeth J. Shpall, and Katayoun Rezvani
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NK cells ,CBT ,NKG2C ,CMV reactivation ,graft selection ,Immunologic diseases. Allergy ,RC581-607 - Abstract
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) remains a major cause of morbidity following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant. Natural killer cells expressing NKG2C have been shown to play a role in the immune surveillance of human CMV. We studied NKG2C copy number in the donor graft and the risk of CMV reactivation after double umbilical cord blood transplantation (DUCBT) in 100 CMV seropositive DUCBT recipients and their corresponding cord blood (CB) grafts (n = 200). In the setting of DUCBT, the combined graft may contain 0–4 functional copies of NKG2C gene. Sixteen patients received a combined graft with 1 or 2 NKG2C copies and 84 patients were recipients of a combined graft with 3 or 4 NKG2C copies. The 6-month cumulative incidence of CMV reactivation for the two groups was 93.7 and 58.4%, respectively (p = 0.0003). In multivariate analysis, low NKG2C copies in the graft was an independent predictor of CMV reactivation (HR = 2.72, CI = 1.59–4.64; p < 0.0001). Our study points to an important role for donor NKG2C for protection against CMV reactivation after DUCBT. These novel findings may help identify patients at a higher risk of CMV reactivation after DUCBT. Donor NKG2C genotype may be used as a potential criterion in the algorithm for graft selection for DUCBT.
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- 2018
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12. Azithromycin may increase hematologic relapse rates in matched unrelated donor hematopoietic cell transplant recipients who receive anti-thymocyte globulin, but not in most other recipients
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Ajay Sheshadri, Muhammad H. Arain, Gabriela Rondon, Amin M. Alousi, Chitra Hosing, Richard E. Champlin, Lara Bashoura, Rohtesh S. Mehta, Badar Patel, Rima M. Saliba, Uday R. Popat, Burton F. Dickey, Luis C. Bueno, and Tahreem Ahmed
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hematopoietic cell transplant ,Transplantation Conditioning ,matched unrelated donor ,Graft vs Host Disease ,Azithromycin ,Article ,Text mining ,anti-thymocyte globulin ,Recurrence ,Hematologic relapse ,medicine ,Humans ,Antilymphocyte Serum ,azithromycin ,Transplantation ,Hematopoietic cell ,business.industry ,Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation ,Hematology ,Matched Unrelated Donor ,Transplant Recipients ,Anti-thymocyte globulin ,Hematologic Neoplasms ,Immunology ,business ,Unrelated Donors ,medicine.drug - Published
- 2020
13. Better allele-level matching improves transplant-related mortality after double cord blood transplantation
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Betül Oran, Kai Cao, Rima M. Saliba, Katayoun Rezvani, Marcos de Lima, Sairah Ahmed, Chitra M. Hosing, Uday R. Popat, Yudith Carmazzi, Partow Kebriaei, Yago Nieto, Gabriela Rondon, Dana Willis, Nina Shah, Simrit Parmar, Amanda Olson, Brandt Moore, David Marin, Rohtesh Mehta, Marcelo Fernández-Viña, Richard E. Champlin, and Elizabeth J. Shpall
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Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs ,RC633-647.5 - Abstract
Cord blood transplant requires less stringent human leukocyte antigen matching than unrelated donors. In 133 patients with hematologic malignancies who engrafted after double cord blood transplantation with a dominant unit, we studied the effect of high resolution testing at 4 loci (-A, -B, -C, -DRB1) for its impact on 2-year transplant-related mortality. Ten percent of the dominant cord blood units were matched at 7–8/8 alleles using HLA-A, -B, -C, and -DRB1; 25% were matched at 6/8, 40% at 5/8, and 25% at 4/8 or less allele. High resolution typing at 4 loci showed that there was no 2-year transplant-related mortality in 7–8/8 matched patients. Patients with 5–6/8 matched dominant cord blood units had 2-year transplant-related mortality of 39% while patients with 4/8 or less matched units had 60%. Multivariate regression analyses confirmed the independent effect of high resolution typing on the outcome when adjusted for age, diagnosis, CD34+ cell dose infused, graft manipulation and cord to cord matching. The worst prognostic group included patients aged over 32 years with 4/8 or less matched cord blood units compared with patients who were either younger than 32 years old independent of allele-level matching, or aged over 32 years but with 5–6/8 matched cord blood units (Hazard Ratio 2.2; 95% confidence interval: 1.3–3.7; P
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- 2015
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14. Deep Reinforcement Learning with Uncertain Data for Real-Time Stormwater System Control and Flood Mitigation
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Jonathan L. Goodall, Sami M. Saliba, Benjamin D. Bowes, Peter A. Beling, and Stephen Adams
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urban flooding ,lcsh:TD201-500 ,reinforcement learning ,lcsh:Hydraulic engineering ,Uncertain data ,Operations research ,Flood myth ,Computer science ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Stormwater ,Aquatic Science ,Biochemistry ,Flooding (computer networking) ,Flood control ,lcsh:Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes ,Real-time Control System ,lcsh:TC1-978 ,smart stormwater systems ,Flood mitigation ,Reinforcement learning ,real-time control ,Water Science and Technology - Abstract
Flooding in many areas is becoming more prevalent due to factors such as urbanization and climate change, requiring modernization of stormwater infrastructure. Retrofitting standard passive systems with controllable valves/pumps is promising, but requires real-time control (RTC). One method of automating RTC is reinforcement learning (RL), a general technique for sequential optimization and control in uncertain environments. The notion is that an RL algorithm can use inputs of real-time flood data and rainfall forecasts to learn a policy for controlling the stormwater infrastructure to minimize measures of flooding. In real-world conditions, rainfall forecasts and other state information are subject to noise and uncertainty. To account for these characteristics of the problem data, we implemented Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG), an RL algorithm that is distinguished by its capability to handle noise in the input data. DDPG implementations were trained and tested against a passive flood control policy. Three primary cases were studied: (i) perfect data, (ii) imperfect rainfall forecasts, and (iii) imperfect water level and forecast data. Rainfall episodes (100) that caused flooding in the passive system were selected from 10 years of observations in Norfolk, Virginia, USA, 85 randomly selected episodes were used for training and the remaining 15 unseen episodes served as test cases. Compared to the passive system, all RL implementations reduced flooding volume by 70.5% on average, and performed within a range of 5%. This suggests that DDPG is robust to noisy input data, which is essential knowledge to advance the real-world applicability of RL for stormwater RTC.
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- 2020
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15. Co-contraction uses dual control of agonist-antagonist muscles to improve motor performance
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Michael J. Rainbow, Kevin J. Deluzio, Stephen Scott, W. Scott Selbie, and Christopher M. Saliba
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0303 health sciences ,Agonist-antagonist ,Computer science ,Control (management) ,Dual (category theory) ,Co contraction ,03 medical and health sciences ,Improved performance ,0302 clinical medicine ,Single muscle ,Muscle activity ,Neuroscience ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,030304 developmental biology - Abstract
Co-contraction of agonist-antagonist muscles is commonly observed when performing difficult motor tasks. The benefit of co-contraction is thought to be zero-delay corrections to unexpected disturbances from increased intrinsic muscle impedance. We used upper-limb postural and tracking tasks to characterize the effects of co-contraction on motor corrections to loads applied to the limb. We systematically controlled pre-perturbation muscle activity and showed that co-contraction improves subsequent corrective responses in both tasks. However, substantial improvements in the corrective response are only observed at the time when neural feedback pathways can also contribute. We demonstrate that muscle impedance appears to play a minor role in improving performance. Instead, co-contraction engages a dual agonist-antagonist control strategy to counter disturbances, that is distinct from the control strategy used when not co-contracting or selectively pre-activating a single muscle group. Critically, we showed that this dual agonist-antagonist control strategy improved performance even at low levels of co-contraction.
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- 2020
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16. Antioxidants modulation of sperm genome and epigenome damage: Fact or fad? Converging evidence from animal and human studies
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Fadi Choucair, Mira Hazzouri, Imad F. Abou Jaoude, and Elias M. Saliba
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0301 basic medicine ,lcsh:R5-920 ,030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine ,lcsh:QH471-489 ,DNA damage ,Offspring ,urogenital system ,Obstetrics and Gynecology ,Epigenome ,Biology ,Sperm ,Genome ,Cell biology ,03 medical and health sciences ,030104 developmental biology ,0302 clinical medicine ,Reproductive Medicine ,DNA methylation ,lcsh:Reproduction ,Epigenetics ,lcsh:Medicine (General) ,Epigenomics - Abstract
Increasing evidence suggests that oxidative stress plays a major role in the pathogenesis of sperm DNA damage. Oxidative stress was also recently found to modulate the epigenetic make up of sperm. Along these lines, a growing body of evidence in both experimental and clinical studies has implicated several regimens of antioxidants, by oral administration or in vitro supplementation to sperm-preparation media, in improving various sperm parameters namely DNA damage. While these studies exhibited heterogeneity in treatment regimens, and variability in methodology, there remains a lack of quality evidence on the association between micronutrients and sperm DNA integrity. Another ancillary effect of antioxidants administration on sperm is the shaping of the epigenome. It is beginning to surface that micronutrients function as potent modulators of the sperm epigenome-regulated gene expression through regulation of mainly DNA methylation in humans and experimental models. However, the few promising experimental studies on mice supported the notion that epigenetic marks in spermatogenesis are dynamic and can be modulated by nutritional exposure. More so, the sperm epigenome was proposed to transfer a so-called epigenomic map to the offspring which can influence their development. Here, we review and summarize the current evidence in human and animal models research regarding the link between genome and epigenome × micronutrients environment interactions on the sperm nuclear damage. Unfortunately, our conclusion is not very conclusive, rather, it opens an avenue to investigate the fortifying effect of antioxidants on sperm cells. Hopefully, further genome and epigenome-wide studies focusing on the prenatal environment, will serve as a promising route for embodying the possibility of “normalization” and restoration of some offspring health cues. Keywords: Sperm, Antioxidants, Micronutrients, Reactive oxygen species, Genome, Epigenome
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- 2018
17. Steroid-Refractory Acute GVHD: Predictors and Outcomes
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Jason R. Westin, Rima M. Saliba, Marcos De Lima, Amin Alousi, Chitra Hosing, Muzaffar H. Qazilbash, Issa F. Khouri, Elizabeth J. Shpall, Paolo Anderlini, Gabriela Rondon, Borje S. Andersson, Richard Champlin, and Daniel R. Couriel
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Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs ,RC633-647.5 - Abstract
Patients with steroid-resistant acute graft versus host disease (aGVHD) have a dismal prognosis, with mortality rates in excess of 90%. We sought to identify a subgroup of patients less likely to benefit from initial therapy with corticosteroids as well as the impact of response on day 14 on outcome. Retrospective evaluation was performed of patients with biopsy-proven aGVHD treated with corticosteroids after allogeneic HSCT at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center from 1998 through 2002 (𝑁=287). Overall response to first-line therapy on day 14 was 56%. Grade III-IV aGVHD and hyperacute GVHD were the most significant factors predicting failure. Patients who fail to respond to steroids by day 14 should be considered for clinical trials. Severity of aGVHD, hyperacute GVHD, and sex mismatch could be integrated into prognostic scoring systems which may allow for pretreatment identification of patients unlikely to benefit from standard therapy with corticosteroids.
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- 2011
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18. Hemorrhagic cystitis after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplants is the complex result of BK virus infection, preparative regimen intensity and donor type
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Leandro de Padua Silva, Poliana A. Patah, Rima M. Saliba, Nicholas A. Szewczyk, Lisa Gilman, Joyce Neumann, Xiang-Yang Han, Jeffrey Tarrand, Rachel Ribeiro, Alison Gulbis, Elizabeth J. Shpall, Roy Jones, Uday Popat, Julia A. Walker, Demetrios Petropoulos, Alexandre Chiattone, John Stewart, Maha El-Zimaity, Paolo Anderlini, Sergio Giralt, Richard E Champlin, and Marcos de Lima
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Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs ,RC633-647.5 - Abstract
Background Hemorrhagic cystitis is a common cause of morbidity after allogeneic stem cell transplantation, frequently associated with BK virus infection. We hypothesized that patients with positive BK viruria before unrelated or mismatched related donor allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation have a higher incidence of hemorrhagic cystitis.Design and Methods To test this hypothesis, we prospectively studied 209 patients (median age 49 years, range 19–71) with hematologic malignancies who received bone marrow (n=78), peripheral blood (n=108) or umbilical cord blood (n=23) allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation after myeloablative (n=110) or reduced intensity conditioning (n=99). Donors were unrelated (n=201) or haploidentical related (n=8).Results Twenty-five patients developed hemorrhagic cystitis. Pre-transplant BK viruria detected by quantitative PCR was positive in 96 patients. The one-year cumulative incidence of hemorrhagic cystitis was 16% in the PCR-positive group versus 9% in the PCR-negative group (P=0.1). The use of umbilical cord blood or a haploidentical donor was the only significant predictor of the incidence of hemorrhagic cystitis on univariate analysis. There was also a trend for a higher incidence after myeloablative conditioning. Multivariate analysis showed that patients who had a positive PCR pre-transplant and received haploidentical or cord blood grafts with myeloablative conditioning had a significantly higher risk of developing hemorrhagic cystitis (58%) than all other recipients (7%, P
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- 2010
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19. Impact of hepatitis C virus seropositivity on survival after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for hematologic malignancies
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Carlos A. Ramos, Rima M. Saliba, Leandro de Pádua, Ola Khorshid, Elizabeth J. Shpall, Sergio Giralt, Poliana A. Patah, Chitra M. Hosing, Uday R. Popat, Gabriela Rondon, Issa F. Khouri, Yago L. Nieto, Richard E. Champlin, and Marcos de Lima
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Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs ,RC633-647.5 - Abstract
Background Because hepatitis C virus infection causes hepatic and immunological dysfunction, we hypothesized that seropositivity for this virus could be associated with increased non-relapse mortality after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.Design and Methods We performed a case-control study of the outcomes of patients who were hepatitis C virus seropositive at the time of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (N=31). Patients positive for hepatitis C virus were considered candidates for stem cell transplantation only if they had no significant evidence of hepatic dysfunction. Matched controls (N=31) were seronegative for viral hepatitides and were paired according to age, diagnosis, disease stage, conditioning regimen and donor type. We also compared the hepatitis C virus seropositive patients to all seronegative patients (all controls, N=1800) transplanted during the same period, to adjust for other confounding effects.Results The median age of the seropositive patients was 49 (range 26–72); 15 had acute myeloid leukemia/myelodysplastic syndrome, 6 had chronic myeloid leukemia/myeloproliferative disease, 6 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, 2 myeloma, 1 acute lymphocytic leukemia and 1 Hodgkin’s lymphoma; 61% had poor risk disease; 68% had related donors; 68% received reduced intensity conditioning; 7 patients had mildly abnormal alanine transaminase levels (all less than three times the upper limit of normal) and 1 patient had minimally elevated bilirubin. These characteristics were similar to those of the matched control group. Median overall survival was 3, 18 and 20 months, and 1-year survival was 29%, 56% and 56%, in the hepatitis C virus, matched and all controls groups, respectively (hazard ratio for death 3.1, 95% confidence interval 1.9–5.6, p
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20. Parallel Strategies for the Synthesis of Annulated Pyrido[3,4-b]indoles via Rh(I)- and Pd(0)-Catalyzed Cyclotrimerization
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Bianca M. Saliba, Satyam Khanal, Michael O'donnell, Matthew R. Gentile, Junho Song, Seann P. Mulcahy, and Kathryn E. Queenan
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Tandem ,010405 organic chemistry ,Organic Chemistry ,Substituent ,010402 general chemistry ,01 natural sciences ,Biochemistry ,Combinatorial chemistry ,Article ,0104 chemical sciences ,Catalysis ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,chemistry ,Drug Discovery - Abstract
Two different pathways for the synthesis of annulated pyrido[3,4-b]indoles are reported using metal-catalyzed cyclotrimerization reactions. A stepwise process using Rh(I)-catalysis in the final step of the synthesis and a multicomponent, tandem catalytic approach using Pd(0)-catalysis both lead to complex nitrogen-containing heterocycles in good yields. Substituent effects are investigated for both pathways, demonstrating that the Pd(0)-catalyzed approach is more sensitive to electron-withdrawing groups.
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21. Not All That Glitters Is Gold: Metal-Migration-Induced Degradation in Perovskite Solar Cells
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K. Domanski, JP Correa-Baena, N. Mine, M. K Nazeeruddin, Abate A, M. Saliba, W. Tress, A, Hagfeldt, M. Grätzel., K., Domanski, Jp, Correa-Baena, N., Mine, Nazeeruddin, M. K., Abate, A, M., Saliba, W., Tre, A, Hagfeldt, and M., Grätzel.
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Materials science ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Mineralogy ,02 engineering and technology ,secondary ion mass spectrometry ,010402 general chemistry ,7. Clean energy ,01 natural sciences ,perovskite solar cells ,Metal ,buffer layers ,General Materials Science ,metal electrodes ,Perovskite (structure) ,degradation ,General Engineering ,stability ,gold ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Decomposition ,0104 chemical sciences ,Secondary ion mass spectrometry ,Chemical engineering ,visual_art ,Electrode ,visual_art.visual_art_medium ,Degradation (geology) ,Organic component ,0210 nano-technology ,Layer (electronics) - Abstract
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have now achieved efficiencies in excess of 22%, but very little is known about their long-term stability under thermal stress. So far, stability reports have hinted at the importance of substituting the organic components, but little attention has been given to the metal contact. We investigated the stability of state-of-the-art PSCs with efficiencies exceeding 20%. Remarkably, we found that exposing PSCs to a temperature of 70 degrees C is enough to induce gold migration through the hole-transporting layer (HTL), Spiro-MeOTAD, and into the perovskite material, which in turn severely affects the device performance metrics under working conditions. Importantly, we found that the main cause of irreversible degradation is not due to decomposition of the organic and hybrid perovskite layers. By introducing a Cr metal interlayer between the HTL and gold electrode, high-temperature-induced irreversible long-term losses are avoided. This key finding is essential in the quest for achieving high efficiency, long-term stable PSCs which, in order to be commercially viable, need to withstand hard thermal stress tests.
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22. Impact of Fluid Overload as New Toxicity Category on Hematopoietic Stem-cell Transplant Outcomes
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Stefan O. Ciurea, Elizabeth J. Shpall, Julianne Chen, Celina Ledesma, Issa F. Khouri, Gabriela Rondon, Chitra Hosing, Partow Kebriaei, Betul Oran, Uday R. Popat, Richard E. Champlin, Amin M. Alousi, and Rima M. Saliba
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Melphalan ,Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Transplantation Conditioning ,Adolescent ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Transplants ,Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation ,Weight Gain ,Article ,03 medical and health sciences ,Young Adult ,0302 clinical medicine ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Edema ,Humans ,Aged ,Transplantation ,Univariate analysis ,business.industry ,Hazard ratio ,Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation ,Hematology ,Middle Aged ,Surgery ,Body Fluids ,Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Hematologic Neoplasms ,Myelodysplastic Syndromes ,Cohort ,Fluid Therapy ,Female ,Complication ,business ,Busulfan ,030215 immunology ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Fluid overload (FO) commonly occurs during hospitalization for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. We hypothesized that FO is associated with transplantation outcomes and evaluated this complication in 2 cohorts of patients. FO was graded based on post-transplantation weight gain, symptoms, and need for treatment, scored in real time by an independent team. The first cohort (study cohort; n = 145) underwent haploidentical transplantation for hematologic malignancies following a melphalan-based conditioning regimen. In univariate analysis, factors associated with day +100 nonrelapse mortality (NRM) were FO grade ≥2 (hazard ratio [HR], 15; 95% confidence interval [CI], 4.2 to 55; P .001), creatinine1 mg/dL (HR, 4.7; 95% CI, 1.6 to 14; P = .005), and age55 years (HR, 4.5; 95% CI, 1.5 to 13; P = .008). In multivariate analysis, factors associated with day +100 NRM were FO grade ≥2 (HR, 13.1; 95% CI, 3.4 to 50; P .001) and serum creatinine level1 mg/dL at transplantation admission (HR, 3.5; 95% CI, 1.1 to 11; P = .03). These findings were verified in a separate cohort (validation cohort) of patients with acute myelogenous leukemia/myelodysplastic syndrome who underwent HLA-matched transplantation with busulfan-based conditioning (n = 449). In multivariate analysis, factors associated with day +100 NRM were FO grade ≥2 (HR, 34; 95% CI, 7.2 to 158; P .001) and, in patients with FO grade2, advanced disease status (HR, 5; 95% CI, 1.1 to 22; P = .03). A higher NRM translated to significantly poorer 1-year overall survival rates for patients with FO ≥2 than for patients without FO (70% versus 42%, P .001 in the study cohort and 64% versus 38%, P .001 in the validation cohort). In conclusion, FO grade ≥2 is strongly associated with higher NRM and shorter survival and should be considered an important prognostic factor in transplantation.
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23. Predictive model for survival in patients with AML/MDS receiving haploidentical stem cell transplantation
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Sairah Ahmed, Betul Oran, Julianne Chen, Issa F. Khouri, Muzaffar H. Qazilbash, Amin M. Alousi, Piyanuch Kongtim, Lohith S. Bachegowda, Richard E. Champlin, Reshma Ramlal, Whitney Wallis, Rima M. Saliba, Simrit Parmar, Gabriela Rondon, Partow Kebriaei, Katayoun Rezvani, David Marin, Stefan O. Ciurea, Elizabeth J. Shpall, Uday R. Popat, Qaiser Bashir, and Chitra Hosing
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Oncology ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Myeloid ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Immunology ,Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation ,Biochemistry ,Models, Biological ,Disease-Free Survival ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Predictive Value of Tests ,hemic and lymphatic diseases ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Letter to Blood ,Survival rate ,Retrospective Studies ,business.industry ,fungi ,Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation ,food and beverages ,Myeloid leukemia ,Cell Biology ,Hematology ,medicine.disease ,Allografts ,Transplantation ,Survival Rate ,Leukemia ,Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Predictive value of tests ,Myelodysplastic Syndromes ,Female ,Stem cell ,business ,030215 immunology ,Follow-Up Studies - Abstract
To the editor: Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (ASCT) is an effective consolidative strategy to decrease relapse for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and can cure ∼30% to 50% of patients with AML.[1][1],[2][2] It has been recognized that survival can vary widely after
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24. Outcomes in hepatitis C virus seropositive lymphoma and myeloma patients after autologous stem cell transplantation
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Aimaz Afrough, Richard E. Champlin, Elizabeth J. Shpall, Partow Kebriaei, M.H. Qazilbash, Ankur Varma, Amanda Olson, Roy B. Jones, Uday R. Popat, Harrys A. Torres, Simrit Parmar, Yago Nieto, Qaiser Bashir, Chitra Hosing, Sairah Ahmed, Amin M. Alousi, Rima M. Saliba, Issa F. Khouri, and Nina Shah
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Oncology ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Lymphoma ,medicine.medical_treatment ,chemical and pharmacologic phenomena ,Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation ,Hepacivirus ,Transplantation, Autologous ,Article ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Autologous stem-cell transplantation ,immune system diseases ,Risk Factors ,hemic and lymphatic diseases ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Prevalence ,Humans ,Progenitor cell ,Aged ,Proportional Hazards Models ,Retrospective Studies ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation ,Hematology ,Middle Aged ,Viral Load ,medicine.disease ,Hepatitis C ,Survival Rate ,surgical procedures, operative ,Graft-versus-host disease ,Treatment Outcome ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Immunology ,Female ,Stem cell ,business ,Multiple Myeloma ,therapeutics ,Viral load ,030215 immunology ,Stem Cell Transplantation - Abstract
Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is the cornerstone therapy for many hematological disorders. Advances in HSCT with better supportive care and earlier referral for HSCT have led to an increase in the number of patients undergoing HSCT. However, the post-HSCT period is often accompanied by infections and complications involving the liver, the lungs and the hematopoietic system.
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25. Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Light Chain Amyloidosis (AL) With Renal Involvement
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Elizabeth J. Shpall, Chitra Hosing, Nina Shah, Uday R. Popat, Simrit Parmar, Muzaffar H. Qazilbash, Yvonne T Dinh, Aimaz Afrough, Rima M. Saliba, Qaiser Bashir, Yago Nieto, Richard E. Champlin, and Amanda Cornelison
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Adult ,Male ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation ,urologic and male genital diseases ,Immunoglobulin light chain ,Article ,Disease-Free Survival ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Immunoglobulin lambda-Chains ,medicine ,Humans ,Progenitor cell ,Autografts ,Aged ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,Amyloidosis ,Follow up studies ,Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation ,Hematology ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Survival Rate ,surgical procedures, operative ,Graft-versus-host disease ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Female ,Kidney Diseases ,Stem cell ,business ,030215 immunology ,Follow-Up Studies - Abstract
Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in light chain amyloidosis (AL) with renal involvement
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26. Outcome of Patients with Immunoglobulin Light Chain Amyloidosis with Lung, Liver, Gastrointestinal, Neurologic and Soft Tissue Involvement after Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
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Ankur Varma, Jatin J. Shah, Muzaffar H. Qazilbash, Qaiser Bashir, Gabriela Rondon, Amir Hamdi, A. Megan Cornelison, Nina Shah, Robert Z. Orlowski, Aimaz Afrough, Simrit Parmar, Uday R. Popat, Chitra Hosing, Yvonne T Dinh, Rima M. Saliba, Riad El Fakih, and Richard E. Champlin
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Transplantation Conditioning ,Survival ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation ,Gastroenterology ,Transplantation, Autologous ,Article ,Immunoglobulin Light-chain Amyloidosis ,Internal medicine ,Medicine ,Humans ,Aged ,Chemotherapy ,Transplantation ,Lung ,biology ,business.industry ,Amyloidosis ,Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation ,Soft tissue ,Response ,Hematology ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Hematologic Response ,Surgery ,Survival Rate ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Treatment Outcome ,biology.protein ,Female ,Immunoglobulin Light Chains ,Antibody ,business ,Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation - Abstract
There is limited information on the outcome when organs other than heart or kidneys are involved by immunoglobulin light-chain amyloidosis (AL). We report the outcome of 53 patients with AL with gastrointestinal (GI), peripheral nerve (PN), liver, lung, or soft-tissue involvement, who underwent high-dose chemotherapy and autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (auto-HCT) at our institution between 1997 and 2013. The median age at auto-HCT was 56 years (range, 35 to 74). One, 2, 3, or 4 organs were involved in 43%, 22%, 28%, and 4% of patients, respectively. Concurrent cardiac, renal, or both were involved in 24 (45%) patients. Forty-six patients received induction therapy before auto-HCT. The 100-day and 1-year treatment-related mortality (TRM) were 3.8% (n = 2) and 7.5% (n = 4), respectively. Forty-one (80%) patients achieved a hematologic response. Organ response at 1 year after auto-HCT was seen in 23 (57%) of the 40 evaluable patients. With a median follow-up of 24 months, the median progression-free survival and overall survival (OS) were 36 and 73 months, respectively. Auto-HCT was associated with a low TRM, durable organ responses, and a median OS of > 6 years in selected patients with AL and GI, PN, liver, lung, or soft-tissue involvement.
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27. General and Virus-Specific Immune Cell Reconstitution Following Double Cord Blood Transplantation
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Julianne Chen, Ann M. Leen, Amanda Olson, Amir Hamdi, Catherine M. Bollard, Ila M Saunders, Charles Martinez, Elizabeth J. Shpall, Roy F. Chemaly, Betul Oran, Jeffrey L. Jorgensen, Gabriela Rondon, Katy Rezvani, Nina Shah, Rima M. Saliba, Simrit Parmar, Chitra Hosing, and Rohtesh S. Mehta
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Adult ,Risk ,Male ,Transplantation Conditioning ,Adolescent ,T-Lymphocytes ,Lymphocyte ,T cell ,T cells ,NK cells ,Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplantation ,medicine.disease_cause ,Virus ,Article ,Post-transplant ,Antigen ,Medicine ,Humans ,Post-transplant infections ,Prospective Studies ,Antigens, Viral ,Absolute lymphocyte count ,Aged ,Antilymphocyte Serum ,B-Lymphocytes ,B cells ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,Hematology ,Middle Aged ,Myeloablative Agonists ,Survival Analysis ,BK virus ,Killer Cells, Natural ,Treatment Outcome ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Virus Diseases ,Hematologic Neoplasms ,Immunology ,Female ,Bone marrow ,business ,CD8 - Abstract
Cord blood transplantation (CBT) is curative for many patients with hematologic malignancies but is associated with delayed immune recovery and an increased risk of viral infections compared with HLA-matched bone marrow or peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation. In this study we evaluated the significance of lymphocyte recovery in 125 consecutive patients with hematologic malignancies who underwent double-unit CBT (DUCBT) with an antithymocyte globulin–containing regimen at our institution. A subset of 65 patients was prospectively evaluated for recovery of T, natural killer (NK), and B cells, and in 46 patients we also examined viral-specific T cell recovery against adenovirus, Epstein-Barr virus, cytomegalovirus, BK virus, respiratory syncytial virus, and influenza antigen. Our results indicate that in recipients of DUCBT, the day 30 absolute lymphocyte count is highly predictive of nonrelapse mortality and overall survival. Immune recovery post-DUCBT was characterized by prolonged CD8+ and CD4+ T lymphopenia associated with preferential expansion of B and NK cells. We also observed profound delays in quantitative and functional recovery of viral-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cell responses for the first year post-CBT. Taken together, our data support efforts aimed at optimizing viral-specific T cell recovery to improve outcomes post-CBT.
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28. Long-term surface ozone variability at Mt. Cimone WMO/GAW global station (2165 m a.s.l., Italy) and in the Mediterranean basin
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P. Cristofanelli(a), M. Steinbacher(b), M. Saliba(c), F. Azzopardi(c), R. Ellul(c), M. Frohlich(d), J. A. Adame(e), F. Calzolari(a), R. Duchi(a), T.C. Landi(a), A. Marinoni(a), and P. Bonasoni(a)
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We analysed 21 years of surface O3 data at the Mt. Cimone station (2165 m, Italy). High O3 values were observed during summer in the Mediterranean region. O3 increased over 1991-2011, no trends were detected for the 1996-2011. Negative trend (-0.13 nmol/mol/year) for the period 1996 - 2013. Summer O3 growth-rates showed a slowing-down in recent years. A few reliable long-term O3 time series in the Mediterranean basin
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29. Long-term outcome of reduced-intensity allogeneic hematopoietic SCT in patients with AML in CR
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Richard E. Champlin, Chitra Hosing, Partow Kebriaei, Simrit Parmar, Borje S. Andersson, Issa F. Khouri, Amin M. Alousi, Uday R. Popat, Rima M. Saliba, Paolo Anderlini, Muzaffar H. Qazilbash, M. de Lima, Yago Nieto, and Sergio Giralt
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Melphalan ,Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Transplantation Conditioning ,Graft vs Host Disease ,Gastroenterology ,Article ,Young Adult ,Internal medicine ,Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols ,Medicine ,Humans ,Transplantation, Homologous ,Cumulative incidence ,neoplasms ,Aged ,Transplantation ,Performance status ,business.industry ,Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation ,Reduced intensity ,Hematology ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Comorbidity ,Surgery ,Fludarabine ,Haematopoiesis ,Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute ,Treatment Outcome ,Female ,business ,Vidarabine ,medicine.drug - Abstract
A total of 36 consecutive patients with AML in CR underwent reduced-intensity allogeneic hematopoietic SCT (RISCT) with fludarabine and melphalan conditioning. All patients were ineligible for myeloablative transplantation because of age or comorbidity. In total, 30 patients were in first CR and six patients were in second CR. Donors were siblings in 21 (58%) patients and were unrelated in 15 (42%) patients. Hematopoietic cell transplant specific comorbidity scores ⩾3 were present in 26 (72%) patients. With a median follow-up of 52 months (range, 34–103 months), OS and PFS rates at 4 years were 71% (s.e., 8%) and 68% (s.e., 8%), respectively. At 4 years, the cumulative incidence of non-relapse mortality was 20% (s.e., 7%) and of relapse mortality was 8% (s.e., 5%). Neither OS nor PFS was affected by older age (>60 years), unrelated donor, melphalan dose, or comorbidity score. At last follow up, of the 24 surviving patients, 21 (88%) had performance status (ECOG) of 0 without any active chronic GVHD requiring steroids. Hence, RISCT with fludarabine and melphalan conditioning produces durable long-term remission in older patients with AML.
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30. Steroid-Refractory Acute GVHD: Predictors and Outcomes
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Daniel R. Couriel, Richard E. Champlin, Jason R. Westin, Gabriela Rondon, Amin M. Alousi, Chitra Hosing, Muzaffar H. Qazilbash, Paolo Anderlini, Issa F. Khouri, Marcos de Lima, Rima M. Saliba, Elizabeth J. Shpall, and Borje S. Andersson
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Article Subject ,business.industry ,Mortality rate ,Cancer ,Hematology ,medicine.disease ,Clinical trial ,surgical procedures, operative ,immune system diseases ,Internal medicine ,Allogeneic hsct ,Acute graft versus host disease ,medicine ,Clinical Study ,Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs ,RC633-647.5 ,Steroid refractory ,Initial therapy ,business ,Standard therapy - Abstract
Patients with steroid-resistant acute graft versus host disease (aGVHD) have a dismal prognosis, with mortality rates in excess of 90%. We sought to identify a subgroup of patients less likely to benefit from initial therapy with corticosteroids as well as the impact of response on day 14 on outcome. Retrospective evaluation was performed of patients with biopsy-proven aGVHD treated with corticosteroids after allogeneic HSCT at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center from 1998 through 2002 (). Overall response to first-line therapy on day 14 was 56%. Grade III-IV aGVHD and hyperacute GVHD were the most significant factors predicting failure. Patients who fail to respond to steroids by day 14 should be considered for clinical trials. Severity of aGVHD, hyperacute GVHD, and sex mismatch could be integrated into prognostic scoring systems which may allow for pretreatment identification of patients unlikely to benefit from standard therapy with corticosteroids.
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31. Long Term Follow Up Of Patients Who Experienced Graft failure Post Allogeneic Progenitor Cell Transplantation. Results of a Single Institution Analysis
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Issa F. Khouri, Gabriela Rondon, Kawah Chan, Rima M. Saliba, Sergio Giralt, Elias Jabbour, Elizabeth J. Shpall, John McMannis, and Richard E. Champlin
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Adult ,Graft Rejection ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Graft failure ,Adolescent ,Neutrophils ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation ,Transplantation, Autologous ,Article ,Leukocyte Count ,hemic and lymphatic diseases ,medicine ,Humans ,Transplantation, Homologous ,Progenitor cell ,Child ,Survival analysis ,Aged ,Retrospective Studies ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation ,Retrospective cohort study ,Hematology ,Middle Aged ,Prognosis ,Survival Analysis ,Allogeneic stem cell transplantation ,Surgery ,Treatment ,surgical procedures, operative ,Child, Preschool ,Absolute neutrophil count ,Female ,Stem cell ,business ,Follow-Up Studies - Abstract
The long-term outcome of graft failure after allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) has not been well described. To fill this knowledge gap we performed a retrospective analysis of patients with graft failure over a 10-year time period in a single institution. Cases were included for analysis if they had failed to achieve an absolute neutrophil count (ANC) of 500/μL or more by 28 days post-SCT or 42 days after cord blood transplantation (primary graft failure); had a decrease in their ANC to
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32. Eight-year experience with allogeneic stem cell transplantation for relapsed follicular lymphoma after nonmyeloablative conditioning with fludarabine, cyclophosphamide, and rituximab
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Issa F. Khouri, Rima M. Saliba, Fredrick B. Hagemeister, L. Jeffrey Medeiros, Naoto T. Ueno, Richard E. Champlin, Amin M. Alousi, Daniel R. Couriel, Paolo Anderlini, Felipe Samaniego, Sattva S. Neelapu, Luis Fayad, Peter McLaughlin, Ming S. Lee, Larry W. Kwak, Martin Korbling, Marcos de Lima, Sergio Giralt, Barry I. Samuels, and Chitra Hosing
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Male ,Transplantation Conditioning ,Clinical Trials and Observations ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Follicular lymphoma ,Graft vs Host Disease ,Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation ,Biochemistry ,Gastroenterology ,Antibodies, Monoclonal, Murine-Derived ,Recurrence ,Prospective Studies ,Lymphoma, Follicular ,B-Lymphocytes ,Graft vs Tumor Effect ,Remission Induction ,Recurrent Follicular Lymphoma ,Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation ,Antibodies, Monoclonal ,Hematology ,Middle Aged ,Combined Modality Therapy ,Fludarabine ,Survival Rate ,Female ,Rituximab ,Vidarabine ,medicine.drug ,Adult ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Immunology ,Antineoplastic Agents ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Transplantation, Homologous ,Cyclophosphamide ,Survival rate ,Aged ,Transplantation Chimera ,business.industry ,Cell Biology ,Myeloablative Agonists ,medicine.disease ,Surgery ,Transplantation ,business ,Follow-Up Studies - Abstract
Nonmyeloablative stem cell transplantation in patients with follicular lymphoma has been designed to exploit the graft-versus-lymphoma immunity. The long-term effectiveness and toxicity of this strategy, however, is unknown. In this prospective study, we analyzed our 8-year experience. Patients received a conditioning regimen of fludarabine (30 mg/m2 daily for 3 days), cyclophosphamide (750 mg/m2 daily for 3 days), and rituximab (375 mg/m2 for 1 day plus 1000 mg/m2 for 3 days). They were then given an infusion of human leukocyte antigen-matched hematopoietic cells from related (n = 45) or unrelated donors (n = 2). Tacrolimus and methotrexate were used for graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis. Forty-seven patients were included. All patients experienced complete remission, with only 2 relapses. With a median follow-up time of 60 months (range, 19-94), the estimated survival and progression-free survival rates were 85% and 83%, respectively. All 18 patients who were tested and had evidence of JH/bcl-2 fusion transcripts in the bone marrow at study entry experienced continuous molecular remission. The incidence of grade 2-IV acute GVHD was 11%. Only 5 patients were still undergoing immunosuppressive therapy at the time of last follow-up. We believe that the described results are a step forward toward developing a curative strategy for recurrent follicular lymphoma.
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33. Long-term follow-up of autologous stem cell transplantation in patients with diffuse mantle cell lymphoma in first disease remission.
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Issa F. Khouri, Rima M. Saliba, Grace-Julia Okoroji, Sandra A. Acholonu, and Richard E. Champlin
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34. Outcomes of Adults with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Relapsing after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
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Amin M. Alousi, Amir Hamdi, Uday R. Popat, Li Mei Poon, Chitra Hosing, Celina Ledesma, Roy B. Jones, Stefan O. Ciurea, Rima M. Saliba, Monique Kendrick, Partow Kebriaei, Richard E. Champlin, Muzaffar H. Qazilbash, Yago Nieto, Elizabeth J. Shpall, and Gabriela Rondon
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Adult ,Male ,Oncology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Transplantation Conditioning ,Allogeneic transplantation ,Palliative care ,Adolescent ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation ,Acute lymphoblastic leukemia ,Article ,Donor lymphocyte infusion ,Recurrence ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Transplantation, Homologous ,Relapse ,Aged ,Retrospective Studies ,Chemotherapy ,Univariate analysis ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,Remission Induction ,Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation ,Hematology ,Middle Aged ,Myeloablative Agonists ,Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma ,Survival Analysis ,Surgery ,Treatment Outcome ,Lymphocyte Transfusion ,Female ,business - Abstract
For patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who relapse after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), treatment options are limited, and the clinical course and prognostic factors affecting outcome have not been well characterized. We retrospectively analyzed outcomes of 123 adult patients with ALL who relapsed after a first HSCT performed at our center between 1993 and 2011. First-line salvage included second HSCT (n = 19), donor lymphocyte infusion with or without prior chemotherapy (n = 11), radiation therapy (n = 6), cytoreductive chemotherapy (n = 30), mild chemotherapy (n = 27), or palliative care (n = 23), with median postrelapse overall survival (OS) of 10 months, 6.5 months, 3 months, 4 months, 4 months, and 1 month, respectively. Despite a complete remission rate of 38% after first-line salvage in the treated patients, the OS rate remained limited with 1- and 2- year OS rates of 17% (95% confidence interval, 13 to 29) and 10% (95% confidence interval, 6 to 20), respectively. On univariate analysis, adverse factors for OS included active disease at the time of first HSCT and short time to progression from first HSCT (
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35. Outcomes of Patients with Myeloid Malignancies Treated with Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation from Matched Unrelated Donors Compared with One Human Leukocyte Antigen Mismatched Related Donors Using HLA Typing at 10 Loci
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Marcelo Fernandez-Vina, Richard E. Champlin, Poliana A. Patah, Fleur M. Aung, Marcos de Lima, Gabriela Rondon, Partow Kebriaei, Pedro Cano, Stefan O. Ciurea, Borje S. Andersson, Rima M. Saliba, and Uday R. Popat
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Graft Rejection ,Male ,Myeloid ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Graft vs Host Disease ,Blood Donors ,Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation ,Human leukocyte antigen ,Histocompatibility Testing ,Article ,Class I HLA mismatch ,Antigen ,HLA Antigens ,Risk Factors ,medicine ,Humans ,Transplantation, Homologous ,HLA matched unrelated donors ,Survival analysis ,Alleles ,Retrospective Studies ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,9/10 matched related donors ,Hematology ,Middle Aged ,Survival Analysis ,Histocompatibility ,Class II HLA mismatch ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Treatment Outcome ,Leukemia, Myeloid ,Immunology ,Female ,business - Abstract
Most candidates for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) lack a human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-identical sibling donor. Some patients may have a related donor with whom they are mismatched at 1 antigen/allele. It is not known whether such a match is preferable to a matched unrelated donor (MUD). We evaluated the outcomes (survival, relapse, nonrelapse mortality [NRM]) of all 28 patients with a single HLA antigen/allele mismatch identified through high-resolution HLA typing at HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB1, and -DQB1, and all 318 patients with myeloid malignancies who received transplants from a 10/10 MUD treated during the same period of time at a single institution. Overall, outcomes for patients treated from a 1-antigen/allele mismatch related donor were significantly worse than from a MUD, primarily because of increased NRM. Overall survival (OS) rates at 3 years for 1-antigen/allele mismatched related donor and MUD transplant recipients were 19% and 45% (P = .007), and NRM rates were 40% and 26% (P = .05), respectively. Patients with class I mismatches appeared to have poorer OS than did patients with class II mismatches. A higher incidence of graft rejection was identified in the mismatched related donor group (P = .02). These results indicate that transplant outcomes are better with a MUD than with a 1 antigen/allele-mismatched related donor.
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36. Phase II Trial of Graft-versus-Host Disease Prophylaxis with Post-Transplantation Cyclophosphamide after Reduced-Intensity Busulfan/Fludarabine Conditioning for Hematological Malignancies
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Borje S. Andersson, Issa F. Khouri, Partow Kebriaei, Chitra Hosing, Uday R. Popat, Roy B. Jones, Jonathan E. Brammer, Muzaffar H. Qazilbash, Gheath Al Atrash, Elizabeth J. Shpall, Richard E. Champlin, Betul Oran, Gabriela Rondon, Julianne Chen, Rima M. Saliba, Amin M. Alousi, Yago Nieto, Stefan O. Ciurea, Sairah Ahmed, and Nina Shah
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Transplantation Conditioning ,Cyclophosphamide ,Adolescent ,Graft vs Host Disease ,Acute ,Gastroenterology ,Graft-versus-host disease ,Disease-Free Survival ,Article ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Cumulative incidence ,Prospective Studies ,Chronic ,Child ,Busulfan ,Aged ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,Area under the curve ,Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation ,Stem cell transplantation ,Infant ,Hematology ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Allografts ,Marrow ,Tacrolimus ,Surgery ,Fludarabine ,Survival Rate ,surgical procedures, operative ,Child, Preschool ,Hematologic Neoplasms ,Methotrexate ,Female ,business ,Vidarabine ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis with post-transplantation cyclophosphamide (CY) after ablative HLA-matched bone marrow (BM) transplantation has been reported to have comparable rates of acute GVHD with an apparent reduction in chronic GVHD and infections when compared to historical prophylaxis with a calcineurin-inhibitor (CNI) and methotrexate (MTX). We conducted a phase II trial of post-transplantation CY (post-CY) after reduced-intensity conditioning (RIC) using intravenous busulfan (area under the curve of 4000 micromolar minute), fludarabine (40 mg/m2) for 4 days, and CY 50 mg/kg on days +3 and +4 after BM or peripheral blood (PB) transplantations from matched related (MRD) or unrelated donors (MUD). MUD recipients received antithymocyte globulin (ATG); however, a later amendment removed ATG. Forty-nine patients were treated (acute myeloid leukemia/myelodysplastic syndrome, 82%). Median age was 62 years (range, 39 to 72). Fifteen patients received an MRD (9 PB/6 BM); 34 had a MUD (2 PB/32 BM). The cumulative incidence of grade II to IV acute GVHD, III to IV acute GVHD, and chronic GVHD was 58%, 22%, and 18%, respectively. A matched cohort analysis compared outcomes to tacrolimus/methotrexate GVHD prophylaxis and indicated higher rates of acute GVHD grade II to IV (46% versus 19%; hazard ratio [HR], 2.8; P = .02) and treatment-related mortality (HR, 3.3; P = .035) and worse overall survival (HR, 1.9; P = .04) with post-CY. The incidence of chronic GVHD and CMV reactivation did not differ. This study suggests that post-CY should not be used as sole GVHD prophylaxis after a RIC transplantation from HLA-matched donors.
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37. Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation for Myelofibrosis with Leukemic Transformation
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Uday R. Popat, Chitra Hosing, Stefan O. Ciurea, Richard E. Champlin, Srdan Verstovsek, Borje S. Andersson, Marcos de Lima, Sergio Giralt, Carlos E. Bueso-Ramos, and Rima M. Saliba
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Melphalan ,Oncology ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Transplantation Conditioning ,Leukemic transformation ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Myelofibrosis ,Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation ,Disease-Free Survival ,Article ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Aged ,Transplantation ,Leukemia ,business.industry ,Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation ,Induction chemotherapy ,Hematology ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Prognosis ,Surgery ,Allogeneic stem cell transplantation ,Cell Transformation, Neoplastic ,Treatment Outcome ,Primary Myelofibrosis ,Female ,Stem cell ,business ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Leukemic transformation (LT) from myelofibrosis has a very poor prognosis with the current treatment strategies. We hypothesized that allogeneic stem cell transplantation (ASCT) can improve outcomes for patients with LT, and reviewed 55 consecutive patients that were treated for myelofibrosis with ASCT at our institution. Fourteen patients (25%) were identified to have LT. Thirteen of these patients received induction chemotherapy and 6 achieved remission at the time of transplant. Conditioning regimen was melphalan (Mel)-based in 9 patients. All patients engrafted and achieved remission after transplant, whereas 4 subsequently relapsed. After a median follow-up of 31 months, 6 patients (49%) survived long term. Although limited by a small number of patients, this study suggests that patients with myelofibrosis and LT may achieve long-term remission after induction chemotherapy and ASCT.
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38. Myeloablative Reduced-Toxicity i.v. Busulfan-Fludarabine and Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant for Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia or Myelodysplastic Syndrome in the Sixth through Eighth Decades of Life
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Partow Kebriaei, Fabio R. Kerbauy, Leandro de Padua Silva, Weiqing Zhang, Gabriela Rondon, Gheath Alatrash, Xuemei Wang, Nelson Hamerschlak, Matteo Pelosini, Richard E. Champlin, Marcos de Lima, Rima M. Saliba, Sergio Giralt, Lianchun Xiao, Chitra Hosing, Alexandre Chiattone, Yago Nieto, Muzaffar H. Qazilbash, and Borje S. Andersson
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Transplantation Conditioning ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Graft vs Host Disease ,Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation ,Gastroenterology ,Disease-Free Survival ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Elderly ,AML ,Internal medicine ,hemic and lymphatic diseases ,Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols ,medicine ,Humans ,Transplantation, Homologous ,Prospective Studies ,Survival rate ,Busulfan ,Aged ,Preparative regimen ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,Myelodysplastic syndromes ,Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation ,Hematology ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,3. Good health ,Fludarabine ,Survival Rate ,Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute ,Regimen ,Myelodysplastic Syndromes ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Acute Disease ,Immunology ,mds ,Female ,business ,Vidarabine ,Follow-Up Studies ,030215 immunology ,medicine.drug - Abstract
The optimal pretransplant regimen for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) in patients ≥ 55 years of age remains to be determined. The myeloablative reduced-toxicity 4-day regimen i.v. busulfan (Bu) (130 mg/m(2)) and i.v. fludarabine (Flu) (40 mg/m(2)) is associated with low morbidity and mortality. We analyzed 79 patients ≥ 55 years of age (median, 58 years) with AML (n = 63) or MDS (n = 16) treated with i.v. Bu-Flu conditioning regimens between 2001 and 2009 (median follow-up, 24 months). The patients who received this regimen had a good performance status. The 2-year overall survival (OS) rates for patients in first complete remission (CR1), second CR (CR2), or refractory disease and for all patients at time of transplantation were 71%, 44%, 32%, and 46%, respectively; 2-year event-free survival (EFS) rates for patients in CR1, CR2, or refractory disease at time of transplantation and for all patients were 68%, 42%, 30%, and 44%, respectively. One-year transplant-related mortality (TRM) rates for patients who were in CR or who had active disease at the time of transplantation were 19% and 20%, respectively. Grade II-IV acute graft-versus-host (aGVHD) disease was diagnosed in 40% of the patients. Our results suggest that age alone should not be the primary reason for exclusion from receiving myeloablative reduced-toxicity conditioning with i.v. Bu-Flu preceding transplantation in patients with AML/MDS.
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39. The risk of Graft-Versus-Host Disease (GVHD) varies with different myeloablative regimens: IV Busulfan/Fludarabine (IV BuFlu) versus IV Busulfan/Cyclophosphamide (IV BuCy) versus Fludarabine/Melphalan (FM)
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Kerry Mickler, Daniel R. Couriel, Richard E. Champlin, Issa F. Khouri, Sergio Giralt, Rima M. Saliba, M. de Lima, Borje S. Andersson, S. Ghosh, and Stella K. Kim
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Oncology ,Busulfan/fludarabine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Transplantation ,Graft-versus-host disease ,business.industry ,Internal medicine ,Medicine ,Fludarabine/Melphalan ,Busulfan/Cyclophosphamide ,Hematology ,business ,medicine.disease - Full Text
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40. 277: A Prospective Evaluation of the Effect of Polyoma (BK) Virus Infection on the Incidence of Hemorrhagic Cystitis (HC) after Unrelated Donor Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (UD HSCT)
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Nicholas A. Szewczyk, Paolo Anderlini, Joyce Neumann, Poliana A. Patah, Lisa Gilman, Maha El-Zimaity, Demetrios Petropoulos, L. Silva, Stefan O. Ciurea, Jeffrey J. Tarrand, Alison M. Gulbis, Elizabeth J. Shpall, Uday R. Popat, Rima M. Saliba, M. de Lima, Sergio Giralt, J.A. Walker, Richard J. Jones, and Richard E. Champlin
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Transplantation ,business.industry ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation ,Hematology ,medicine.disease ,Virology ,Prospective evaluation ,Unrelated Donor ,Immunology ,BK Virus Infection ,Medicine ,business ,Hemorrhagic cystitis - Full Text
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41. Reduced-intensity conditioning (RIC) regimens result in low prevalence of premature ovarian failure (POF) in women underwent hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HST)
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Sergio Giralt, Karen H. Lu, Gabriella Rondon, Rima M. Saliba, Diane C. Bodurka, David M. Gershenson, Yee Chung Cheng, Richard E. Champlin, and Naoto T. Ueno
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Gynecology ,Oncology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation ,Hematology ,medicine.disease ,Premature ovarian failure ,Reduced Intensity Conditioning ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,business - Full Text
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42. The Impact of Pre-Transplant Valganciclovir on Early Cytomegalovirus Reactivation After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant
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Roy F. Chemaly, Charles Martinez, Rita Cool, Richard E. Champlin, Partow Kebriaei, Michael Westmoreland, I. Maewal, Rima M. Saliba, Jill Ferguson, Alison M. Gulbis, Kay Wilhelm, and Gabriella Rondon
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Transplantation ,Cytomegalovirus reactivation ,business.industry ,Immunology ,medicine ,Valganciclovir ,Hematology ,Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant ,business ,medicine.drug - Full Text
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43. Treatment of myelodysplastic syndromes with allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT)—impact of non-relapse mortality on outcomes
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Rima M. Saliba, S. Ghosh, M. de Lima, T. Ativitavas, Richard E. Champlin, and G. Sergio
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Oncology ,Transplantation ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Internal medicine ,Myelodysplastic syndromes ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Medicine ,Nonrelapse mortality ,Hematology ,Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation ,business ,medicine.disease - Full Text
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44. 20: Autologous stem cell transplantation for elderly patients with multiple myeloma
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Amin M. Alousi, Partow Kebriaei, Michael Wang, S.P. Qureshi, Richard E. Champlin, Rima M. Saliba, Floralyn Mendoza, Chitra Hosing, Uday R. Popat, Sergio Giralt, Thuy Flosser, M.H. Qazilbash, M. de Lima, Donna M. Weber, D.P. Couriel, Z. Gul, and S. Jindani
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Oncology ,Transplantation ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Autologous stem-cell transplantation ,business.industry ,Internal medicine ,Medicine ,Hematology ,business ,medicine.disease ,Multiple myeloma - Full Text
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45. Salvage non-myeloablative allogeneic transplantation after failure of an autologous transplantation in multiple myeloma
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Linda Roden, Rima M. Saliba, Partow Kebriaei, Floralyn Mendoza, D.E. Couriel, M.H. Qazilbash, Richard E. Champlin, Uday R. Popat, M. de Lima, Sergio Giralt, and Chitra Hosing
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Transplantation ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Allogeneic transplantation ,business.industry ,Medicine ,Non myeloablative ,Autologous transplantation ,Hematology ,business ,medicine.disease ,Multiple myeloma ,Surgery - Full Text
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46. Hyperacute GVHD: Analysis of risk factors, clinical manifestations, and outcomes
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Yvonne Hsu, Elizabeth J. Shpall, Joyce Neumann, Rima M. Saliba, J. De Jesus, M. de Lima, S. Ghosh, Borje S. Andersson, Kerry Mickler, Richard E. Champlin, Chitra Hosing, and Daniel R. Couriel
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47. Reduced-Intensity Conditioning and Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation For Relapsed/Refractory Hodgkin Lymphoma In The Brentuximab Vedotin Era
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Tamera R. Alexander, Sattva S. Neelapu, Anas Younes, Yago Nieto, Paolo Anderlini, Michelle A. Fanale, Richard E. Champlin, Jorge E. Romaguera, Uday R. Popat, Rima M. Saliba, Issa F. Khouri, Amin M. Alousi, Chitra Hosing, Christina Chancoco, Elizabeth J. Shpall, Celina Ledesma, and Yasuhiro Oki
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Oncology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Transplantation ,business.industry ,Cancer ,Hematology ,medicine.disease ,humanities ,Lymphoma ,Cell therapy ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Refractory Hodgkin Lymphoma ,Hodgkin lymphoma ,Stem cell ,Brentuximab vedotin ,business ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Reduced-Intensity Conditioning and Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation For Relapsed/Refractory Hodgkin Lymphoma In The Brentuximab Vedotin Era Paolo Anderlini , Rima Saliba , Celina Ledesma , Christina M. Chancoco , Tamera R. Alexander , Amin M. Alousi , Chitra Hosing , Issa F. Khouri , Yago Nieto , Uday R. Popat , Elizabeth J. Shpall , Michelle A. Fanale , Yasuhiro Oki , Jorge E. Romaguera , Sattva S. Neelapu , Anas Younes , Richard E. Champlin . Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Department of Stem Cell Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Stem Cell Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Lymphoma, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Stem Cell Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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48. Reduced Intensity Conditioning (RIC) Regimen Followed By Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) In Adult Patients (PTS) With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)
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M.H. Qazilbash, Hagop M. Kantarjian, Issa F. Khouri, Partow Kebriaei, Chitra Hosing, L. De Padua Silva, Rima M. Saliba, Daniel Thomas, Sergio Giralt, Richard E. Champlin, Elizabeth J. Shpall, and Uday R. Popat
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Oncology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Transplantation ,Adult patients ,business.industry ,Lymphoblastic Leukemia ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation ,Hematology ,Regimen ,Reduced Intensity Conditioning ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,business - Full Text
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49. 15: The Impact of Resolved Hepatitis B Infection on Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Hematological Malignancies
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Richard E. Champlin, S. Qureshi, Yago Nieto, M. de Lima, M.H. Qazilbash, Sergio Giralt, Weiqing Zhang, Rima M. Saliba, Uday R. Popat, Ola Khorshid, Carlos A. Ramos, Borje S. Andersson, and L. de Padua
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50. Acute hypertensive crisis during infusion of hematopoietic progenitor cell from matched unrelated donors: Identification of predictive factors and optimal treatment
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Gabriella Rondon, Roxann Blackburn, Sergio Giralt, Joyce Fenwick, and Rima M. Saliba
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