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BLOOD
Volume 113, Issue 23, Pages 6011-6014Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2008-12-195388
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- Spanish Ministry of Health [BA05/90038, FIS 06/60230, FIS 05/2505]
- Fundacion MMA [07/589]
- Program for Research Intensification in Nursing of the Agencia Pedro Lain Entralgo (Comunidad de Madrid, Spain)
- Fundacion para la Investigacion Biomedica del Hospital Gregorio Maranon
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Autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) has been successfully used in HIV-related lymphoma (HIV-Ly) patients on highly active antiretroviral therapy. We report the first comparative analysis between HIV-Ly and a matched cohort of HIV- lymphoma patients. This retrospective European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation study included 53 patients (66% non-Hodgkin and 34% Hodgkin lymphoma) within each cohort. Both groups were comparable except for the higher proportion of males, mixed-cellularity Hodgkin lymphoma and patients receiving granulocyte colony-stimulating factor before engraftment and a smaller proportion receiving total body irradiation-based conditioning within the HIV-Ly cohort. Incidence of relapse, overall survival, and progression-free survival were similar in both cohorts. A higher nonrelapse mortality within the first year after ASCT was observed in the HIV-Ly group (8% vs 2%), predominantly because of early bacterial infections, although this was not statistically significant and did not influence survival. Thus, within the highly active antiretroviral therapy era, HIV patients should be considered for ASCT according to the same criteria adopted for HIV- lymphoma patients. (Blood. 2009; 113: 6011-6014)
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