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BLOOD
Volume 130, Issue 8, Pages 1052-1061Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2016-07-726901
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- U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, US Department of Defense [W81XWH-07-1-0578]
- Terumo BCT, Lakewood, CO
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Human lymphocyte antigen alloimmunization to filter leukoreduced (F-LR) platelets occurs in about 18% of immunosuppressed thrombocytopenic hematology/oncology patients and represents a significant challenge for effective chemotherapy. In a dog platelet transfusion model, we have evaluated other methods of preventing alloimmune platelet refractoriness and demonstrated that successful methods in our dog model are transferable to man. In the present study, donor/recipient pairs were dog lymphocyte antigen DR-B incompatible (88% of the pairs), and recipient dogs received up to 8 weekly treated transfusions from a single donor (a highly immunogenic stimulus), or until platelet refractoriness. Continued acceptance of F-LR platelets occurred in 6 of 13 recipients (46%), but neither gamma-irradiation (gamma-I; 0 of 5) nor Mirasol pathogen reduction (MPR; 1 of 7) treatment of donor platelets prevented alloimmune platelet refractoriness. Combining g-I with F-LR was associated with only 2 of 10 (20%) recipients accepting the transfused platelets. Surprisingly, F-LR platelets that then underwent MPR were accepted by 21 of 22 (95%) recipients (P < .001 vs F-LR + gamma-I recipients). Furthermore, 7 of 21 (33%) of these accepting recipients demonstrated specific tolerance to 8 more weekly donor transfusions that had not been treated. In addition, platelet concentrates prepared from F-LR + MPR whole blood were also nonimmunogenic; that is, 10 of 10 (100%) recipients accepted donor platelets. Overall, 31 of 32 (97%) recipients accepted F-LR + MPR platelets; none developed antibodies to donor lymphocytes. These data are the highest rate of acceptance for platelet transfusions reported in either animals or man. This approach to platelet transfusion may be particularly important when supporting patients with intact immune systems, such as in myelodysplastic syndromes.
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