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BIOLOGY OF BLOOD AND MARROW TRANSPLANTATION
Volume 18, Issue 4, Pages 565-574Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2011.08.018
Keywords
Cord blood transplantation; Immune reconstitution
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- NIH [AI29530, CA142106]
- Ted and Eileen Pasquarello Research Fund
- Jock and Bunny Adams Research and Education Endowment
- Stem Cell Cyclists of the Pan Mass Challenge
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Double umbilical cord blood (DUCB) transplantation is an accepted transplantation strategy for patients without suitable human leukocyte antigen (HLA) matched donors. However, DUCB transplantation is associated with increased morbidity and mortality because of slow recovery of immunity and a high risk of infection. To define the differences in immune reconstitution between DUCB transplantation and HLA matched unrelated donor (MUD) transplantation, we performed a detailed, prospective analysis of immune reconstitution in 42 DUCB recipients and 102 filgrastim-mobilized unrelated peripheral blood stem cell recipients. Reconstitution of CD3 T cells was significantly delayed in the DUCB cohort compared with the MUD cohort for 1 to 6 months posttransplantation (P <.001), including naive (CD45RO-) and memory (CD45RO+) CD4 T cells, regulatory (CD4CD25) T cells, and CD8 T cells. In contrast, CD19 B cells recovered more rapidly in the DUCB cohort and numbers remained significantly greater from 3 to 24 months after transplantation (P =.001). CD56CD16 natural killer (NK) cells also recovered more rapidly in DUCB recipients and remained significantly greater from 1 to 24 months after transplantation. B cell activating factor (BAFF) levels were higher in the DUCB cohort at 1 month (P <.001), were similar in both cohorts at 3 and 6 months, and were lower in the DUCB cohort at 12 months (P =.002). BAFF/CD19 B cell ratios were lower in the DUCB cohort at 3 (P =.045), 6 (P =.02), and 12 months (P =.002) after transplantation. DUCB recipients had more infections within the first 100 days after transplantation (P <.001), and there was less chronic graft-versus-host disease (P <.001), but there were no differences in cumulative incidence of relapse, nonrelapse death, progression-free survival, or overall survival between the 2 groups. These results suggest that increased risk of infections is specifically associated with delayed reconstitution of all major T cell subsets, but the increased risk is limited to the first 3 months after DUCB transplantation. There is no increased risk of relapse, suggesting that graft-versus-leukemia activity is maintained. Early reconstitution of B cells and NK cells may, in part, account for these findings. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 18: 565-574 (2012) (C) 2012 American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
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