Reduced intensity hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation across human leukocyte antigen barriers in a patient with congenital amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia and monosomy 7

Congenital amegalkaryocytic thrombocytopenia (CAMT) is a rare inherited bone marrow failure syndrome that has the potential to progress to pancytopenia and acute myeloid leukemia. Hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT) is presently the only curative treatment approach. We used a reduced intensity transplantation regimen in a CAMT patient with aplastic anemia and monosomy 7 who had no matched related donor. The patient had rapid and durable engraftment with minimal complications and is well 24 months post-transplantation. Thus, reduced intensity conditioning might be a feasible approach to stem-cell transplantation in patients with CAMT who do not have a related donor and who are at increased risk of toxicity from standard conditioning regimens. (c) 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc.