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Factors predicting single-unit predominance after double umbilical cord blood transplantation

Bone Marrow Transplantation volume 47, pages 799–803 (2012)Cite this article

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Double umbilical cord blood transplantation (dUCBT), developed as a strategy to treat large number of patients with hematologic malignancies, frequently leads to the long-term establishment of a new hematopoietic system maintained by cells derived from a single umbilical cord blood unit. However, predicting which unit will predominate has remained elusive. This retrospective study examined the risk factor associated with unit predominance in 262 patients with hematologic malignancies who underwent dUCBT with subsequent hematopoietic recovery and complete chimerism between 2001 and 2009. Dual chimerism was detected at day 21–28, with subsequent single chimerism in 97% of the cases by day +100 and beyond. Risk factors included nucleated cell dose, CD34+ and CD3+ cell dose, colony-forming units-granulocyte macrophage dose, donor–recipient HLA match, sex and ABO match, order of infusion and cell viability. In the myeloablative setting, CD3+ cell dose was the only factor associated with unit predominance (odds ratio (OR) 4.4, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.8–10.6; P<0.01), but in the non-myeloablative setting, CD3+ cell dose (OR 2.1, 95%CI 1.0–4.2; P=0.05) and HLA match (OR 3.4, 95%CI 1.0–11.4; P=0.05) were independent factors associated with unit predominance. Taken together, these findings suggest that immune reactivity has a role in unit predominance, and should be considered during graft selection and graft manipulation.

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We thank Michael J Franklin (The University of Minnesota) for editing the manuscript. This work was supported in part by grants from the National Cancer Institute CA65493 (CGB, TED, BRB, JSM, PBM and JEW) and CA77598 (TED), Children's Cancer Research Fund (JEW, TED and MRV), Universidad Católica de Chile (PR), American Cancer Society Audrey Meyer Mars International Fellowship in Clinical Oncology (PR), American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation Robert A. Good New Investigator Award (CGB), and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Scholar in Clinical Research Award (CGB).

Authors contributions: Pablo Ramirez was involved in the study conception, data collection and analysis, and draft and final approval of the version to be published. John E Wagner and Claudio G Brunstein were involved in the study conception, design, data analysis, review and final approval of the version to be published. Todd E DeFor was involved in the data analysis and review, and final approval of the version to be published. Bruce R. Blazar and Philip B McGlave were involved in the study conception and in the review and final approval of the version to be published. Michael R Verneris, David H McKenna and Daniel J Weisdorf were involved in the review and final approval of the version to be published. Jeffrey S Miller was involved in the study conception and in the review and final approval of the version to be published.

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  1. Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    P Ramirez, J E Wagner, T E DeFor, B R Blazar, M R Verneris, J S Miller, D J Weisdorf, P B McGlave & C G Brunstein

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    P Ramirez, J S Miller, D J Weisdorf, P B McGlave & C G Brunstein

  3. Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    J E Wagner, B R Blazar & M R Verneris

  4. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Minneapolis, MN, USA

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Ramirez, P., Wagner, J., DeFor, T. et al. Factors predicting single-unit predominance after double umbilical cord blood transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant 47, 799–803 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2011.184

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