Jorge Sierra

Jorge Sierra
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Fitness assessment in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is critical to deliver the right therapy to the right patient. While several scoring systems are available to aid in determining fitness, the absence of validation studies has resulted in the lack of universally accepted assessment procedures. This limitation, combined with the increa...
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Fitness assessment in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is critical to deliver the right therapy to the right patient. While several scoring systems are available to aid in determining fitness, the absence of validation studies has resulted in the lack of universally accepted assessment procedures. This limitation, combined with the increa...
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CD30-directed CART cell therapy (CART30) has limited efficacy in relapsed or refractory patients with CD30+ lymphoma, with a low proportion of durable responses. We have developed an academic CART30 cell product (HSP-CAR30) by combining strategies to improve performance. HSP-CAR30 targets a proximal epitope within the non-soluble part of CD30, and...
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Given the heterogeneity of acute myeloid leukemia patients, it is necessary to identify patients considered fit for intensive therapy but who will perform poorly, and in whom alternative approaches deserve investigation. We analyzed 1034 fit adults ≤70 years intensively treated between 2012 and 2022 in the CETLAM group. Young adults ( ≤ 60 years) p...
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Objective This non‐interventional, prospective, single‐center study aimed to develop a technique to measure ruxolitinib (RUX) concentrations and provide preliminary data on the distribution of plasma drug levels in patients with steroid refractory (SR) GvHD. Methods Between April 2023 and May 2024, we analyzed 48 blood samples from 29 patients wit...
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Since 2017, targeted therapies combined with conventional intensive chemotherapy have started to improve outcome of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). However, even before these innovations outcomes with intensive chemotherapy have improved, which has not yet been extensively studied. Thus, we used a large pan-European multicenter dataset...
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Background: Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is marked by severe immune dysfunction, which results in an increased risk of autoimmune disorders (AID). While autoimmune cytopenia (AIC) has been extensively described in patients with CLL, the clinical characteristics and pathogenesis behind non-hematologic AID are poorly understood. However, there...
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Introduction: post-transplantation cyclophosphamide (PTCy) 50 mg/kg/day on D3 and D4, firstly introduced in the haploidentical setting, has demonstrated significant efficacy in reducing the incidence of severe acute and chronic GvHD. The aim of this study was to evaluate efficacy and safety of reduced dose of PTCy to 30 mg/kg/day on D3 and D4 in HL...
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Introduction Measurable residual disease (MRD) assessment has become a crucial prognostic tool in patients diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) undergoing intensive chemotherapy. While its prognostic impact is well-documented in these patients, its value among those treated with venetoclax-based low-intensity combinations remains less certai...
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Chimeric antigen receptor T cells targeting CD30 (CART30) in patients with relapsed/refractory (R/R) classical Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) have shown clinical responses. However, most patients eventually relapse. Presence of early-memory T cells in the CART infusion product (i.e., memory stem T cells -TSCM-), was previously correlated with clinical effic...
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Background Measurable residual disease (MRD) detection in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients in complete morphological remission (CR) is associated with an increased risk of relapse and mortality. While molecular methods such as qPCR offer high sensitivity, most patients lack a molecular marker and are monitored using flow cytometry (FC). Next-g...
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Background: C10603/RATFIY was the first AML trial to show the benefit of adding a targeted agent to intensive chemotherapy for a specific genetically determined subset (Stone R et al, NEJM 2017). The addition of the multi-kinase inhibitor midostaurin (M) to chemotherapy in previously untreated adults with FLT3-mutant AML resulted in superior event-...
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Background Overall, the prognosis of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) in the early phase of the disease (Rai 0, Binet A) is favorable; some patients never require therapy. However, some patients require intervention shortly after diagnosis. In the past decade, several risk scores (RS) have been developed to predict disease progressi...
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Objective This retrospective single center study aims to describe changes in the severity and organ‐specific distribution of GvHD, by comparing the outcomes of 3 distinct GvHD prophylaxis approaches. Methods Between January 2012 and June 2022, 226 patients underwent allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation from HLA‐matched or 1‐allele mi...
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The European LeukemiaNet (ELN) genetic risk classifications were developed based on data from younger adults receiving intensive chemotherapy. Emerging analyses from patients receiving less-intensive therapies prompted a proposal for an ELN genetic risk classification specifically for this patient population.
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Background Physical and psychological distress may occur in patients facing an onco-haematological diagnosis and undergoing complex therapies such as intensive chemotherapy, stem cell transplantation, and immunotherapy. Studies have shown the need for incorporating different therapeutic modalities to respond to patients’ physical and psychosocial n...
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Background Upstream Binding Transcription Factor ( UBTF) gene plays an important role in ribosomal RNA transcription. UBTF tandem duplications (TD) have been recently described as a recurrent genetic lesion in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). UBTF-TDs appear to be mutually exclusive with other class-defining lesions in AML and display a unique comutat...
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Background: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous disease with high disease-related mortality and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) remains the only curative option for a large proportion of patients. However, allo-HSCT has a significant transplant-related mortality (TRM), so a careful evaluation between risk...
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We investigated whether secondary versus de novo acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) would be associated with poor outcomes in adult acute AML patients in first complete remission (CR1) receiving unrelated cord blood transplantation (CBT). This is a retrospective study from the acute leukaemia working party of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Tr...
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The pivotal RATIFY study demonstrated midostaurin (50 mg b.i.d.) with standard chemotherapy significantly reducing mortality in adult patients (<60 years) with newly diagnosed (ND) FLT3mut acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Considering that AML often present in older patients who show poor response to chemotherapy, this open-label, multicenter Phase 3b...
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Background and objectives: Autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) is a widely used therapy for lymphoma patients and can nowadays be performed on an outpatient basis. This study aimed to describe transfusion support in lymphoma patients undergoing ASCT and identify increased or prolonged transfusion requirement predictors. Materials and methods:...
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Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HCT) recipients are at high risk of severe COVID-19 despite vaccination. Little is known about cellular response to SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in this population, especially in recently transplanted patients (RTP). In this single-center study we examined cellular and humoral response to the mRNA-1273 (Spikevax...
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Midostaurin added to intensive chemotherapy is the standard of care for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with FLT3 mutations (FLT3mut). We analyzed the impact of midostaurin in 227 FLT3mut-AML patients included in the AML-12 prospective trial for fit patients ≤70 years (#NCT04687098). Patients were divided into an early (2012–2015) and late (2016–2020)...
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Objectives: High-dose total body irradiation (TBI) is considered a cornerstone of myeloablative conditioning for allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT). We retrospectively compared the main outcomes of an HLA matched or 1-allele mismatched related or unrelated allo-SCT in adult patients affected by acute leukemia (AL) or myelodysplastic s...
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Background: Engraftment and non-relapse mortality (NRM) greatly depend upon the transplant platform in patients with Myelofibrosis (MF). Objective: We report outcomes of 14 consecutive MF patients who received reduced doses of post-transplant Cyclophosphamide (PTCy) (60 mg/kg total dose) and tacrolimus as graft versus host disease (GVHD) prophyl...
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Despite advances in the development of targeted therapies for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), most patients relapse. For that reason, it is still necessary to develop novel therapies that improve treatment effectiveness and overcome drug resistance. We developed T22-PE24-H6, a protein nanoparticle that contains the exotoxin A from the bacterium Pseud...
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Physical and psychological distress may be present when facing an onco-hematological diagnosis and undergoing complex therapies such as intensive chemotherapy, stem cell transplantation, and immunotherapy. Studies show the need for incorporating different therapeutic modalities to respond to patients’ physical and psychosocial needs. Aims: The purp...
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Background: RIC-alloHSCT had been our standard of care for patients more than 50, with comorbidities or previously transplanted. Methods: 484 consecutive RIC-alloHSCT were included. GVHD prophylaxis consisted of CsA-MTX(147), CsA-MMF(124), tacro-siro(145) and PTCy-tacro(68). Results: The median time of overall follow-up in survivors was 8-years (wi...
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Purpose: This study aims to describe the incidence and severity of adverse events (AEs) following the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine and explore the risk perception of COVID-19 in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HCT) recipients. Methods: We performed a single-center prospective study including recently transplanted (< 2 years post-i...
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Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a complex disease, and its treatment needs to be adjusted to the risk, which is conferred by cytogenetics and molecular markers. Cytarabine is the main drug to treat AML, and it has been suggested that the genotype of cytarabine metabolizing enzymes may have a prognostic relevance in AML. Here we report the associati...
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Identifying factors that ameliorates clinical outcomes following CART therapy represents an unmet need. We hypothesized that CAR expression level would have a significant impact on CART efficacy and tested this with CAR30+ TSCM-LIKE enriched cells. By sorting T-cells according to CAR mean fluorescence intensity in two markedly different populations...
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Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (alloHCT) remains the only curative option for relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia and other high-risk myeloid malignancies. To improve alloHCT results in this setting, sequential regimens were designed as a strategy to lower tumor burden and quickly induce the graft-versus-leukemia effect. We an...
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The 2010 and 2017 editions of the European LeukemiaNet (ELN) recommendations for diagnosis and management of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in adults are widely recognized among physicians and investigators. There have been major advances in our understanding of AML, including new knowledge about the molecular pathogenesis of AML, leading to an updat...
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We compared transplantation outcomes of adult patients with AML that underwent cord blood transplantation (CBT) in CR1 following 1 versus 2 induction courses. Study included 325 patients, 243 (75%) with 1 and 82 (25%) with 2 induction courses. Engraftment was lower for patients achieving CR1 after 1 vs. 2 induction courses: 91% vs. 99% (p = 0.02)....
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The classification of myeloid neoplasms and acute leukemias was last updated in 2016 within a collaboration between the World Health Organization (WHO), the Society for Hematopathology, and the European Association for Haematopathology. This collaboration was primarily based on input from a clinical advisory committees (CAC) composed of pathologist...
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Background: The main goal of this post hoc analysis of the Collaboration to Collect Autologous Transplant Outcomes in Lymphoma and Myeloma (CALM) study was to evaluate the rate of short- and long-term infectious and non-infectious complications occurring after ASCT in patients with multiple myeloma (MM). Methods: The analysis included all patien...
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Recently a new three-group clinical classification was reported by an International Consortium to stratify CMML patients with regard to prognosis. The groups were defined as follows: (1) Myelodysplastic (MD)-CMML: WBC ≤ 10 × 10⁹/l, circulating immature myeloid cells (IMC) = 0, no splenomegaly; (2) MD/MP (overlap)–CMML: WBC 10–20 × 10⁹/l or WBC ≤ 10...
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High rates of relapsed and refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients and life-threatening side effects associated with immunochemotherapy make an urgent need to develop new therapies for DLBCL patients. Immunotoxins seem very potent anticancer therapies but their use is limited because of their high toxicity. Accordingly, the self-a...
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Self-assembling non-immunoglobulin scaffold proteins are a promising class of nanoscale carriers for drug delivery and interesting alternatives to antibody-based carriers that are not sufficiently efficient in systemic administration. To exploit their potentialities in clinics, protein scaffolds need to be further tailored to confer appropriate tar...
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In acute myeloid leukemia (AML) internal tandem duplications of the FLT3 gene (FLT3-ITD) are associated with poor prognosis. Retrospectively, we investigated the prognostic and predictive impact of FLT3-ITD insertion site (IS) in 452 patients randomized within the RATIFY trial, which evaluated midostaurin additionally to intensive chemotherapy. Nex...
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The impact of GVHD and graft-versus-leukemia effect in unrelated cord blood transplantation (UCBT) is controversial. In the Eurocord/ALWP EBMT and JSTCT/JDCHCT collaborative study, we evaluated the impact of GVHD on UCBT outcomes in Japanese and European registries. A total of 3,690 adult patients with acute leukemia who received their first single...
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The 2017 European LeukemiaNet (ELN 2017) guidelines for the diagnosis and management of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) have become fundamental guidelines to assess the prognosis and post-remission therapy of patients. However, they have been retrospectively validated in few studies with patients included in different treatment protocols. We analyzed...
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Return to work (RTW) is a marker of functional recovery in cancer patients, with quality of life, financial and social implications. We investigated frequency and factors associated with RTW in a cohort of patients younger than 66 years, with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (MM), uniformly treated with a bortezomib-based induction followed by auto...
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Background: The decision to perform allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloHSCT) in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is based on the risk-benefit ratio (non relapse mortality vs reduction of relapse risk). In 2017, the European LeukemiaNet (ELN) proposed a risk score based on cytogenetic and molecular genetic characteristics to facili...
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Background: Achieving a first complete remission (CR1) is an important prognostic factor for transplantation outcome. However, there are no data in the setting of cord blood transplantation (CBT) indicating whether the number of induction courses (1 or 2) needed to achieve CR1, is of prognostic significance. As CBT is advantageous for acute myeloge...
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Background Midostaurin, a multikinase inhibitor with significant activity against FLT3, was approved in combination with chemotherapy (CT) for treatment of pts with newly diagnosed (ND) FLT3-mutated AML based on the CALGB 10603/RATIFY trial (NCT00651261; Stone et al, NEJM 2017). The A2408 study (NCT03379727) confirmed the efficacy/safety of midosta...
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The large acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patient-derived data sets collected within the European HARMONY alliance allows to study the molecular heterogeneity underlying AML in detail. Especially, how cytogenetic and molecular genetic aberrations differentially affect patients. Here, we report first results on the differences in mutational patterns in...
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Background: The development of new genetic profiling techniques such as Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) have helped to unravel the genomic landscape of a large number of hematological diseases. In acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML), many mutations have been found at diagnosis or during the course of the disease, either alone or in combination. Neve...
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Current therapy in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is based on chemotherapeutic drugs administered at high doses, lacking targeting selectivity and displaying poor therapeutic index because of severe adverse effects. Here, we develop a novel nanoconjugate that combines a self-assembled, multivalent protein nanoparticle, targeting the CXCR4 receptor, w...
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In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, different vaccines in front of SARS-CoV-2 have been approved and administered in different vulnerable populations. As patients with cancer were excluded from pivotal trials of vaccination, little is known on their immunogenic response to these vaccines, particularly in patients with severely impaired immune sy...
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Background: Steroid-refractory chronic GvHD (SR-cGvHD) is a major obstacle in recipients of an allogeneic stem cell transplantation (HCT). Ruxolitinib is the first agent to demonstrate superior efficacy to best available therapy (BAT), but real-life data is still lacking. Objetive: describes the results of Ruxolitinib compassionate use for the trea...
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The negative prognostic impact of FLT3-ITD in patients with acute myeloid leukemia with mutated NPM1 (AML-NPM1) is restricted to patients with a higher FLT3-ITD allelic ratio (≥0.5; FLT3high) and considered negligible in wild-type (FLT3wt)/low ITD ratio (FLT3low) patients. Since the co-mutation of DNMT3A (DNMT3Amut) has been suggested to negatively...
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The prospective randomized, placebo-controlled CALGB 10603/RATIFY trial (Alliance) demonstrated a statistically significant overall survival benefit from the addition of midostaurin to standard frontline chemotherapy in a genotypically-defined subgroup of 717 patients with FLT3-mutant acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The risk of death was reduced by 2...
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Background We describe a patient with blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm with central nervous system involvement and the outcome of venetoclax use in this setting. Case presentation A 54-year-old Caucasian male was referred to the Haematology Unit with an enlarged inguinal lymph node which was diagnostic of a blastic plasmacytoid dendrit...
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Nanomedicine has opened an opportunity to improve current clinical practice by enhancing the selectivity in the delivery of antitumor drugs to specific cancer cells. These new strategies are able to bypass toxicity on normal cells increasing the effectiveness of current anticancer treatments. In acute myeloid leukemia (AML) current chemotherapy tre...
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Objectives Adoptive cell therapy (ACT) with mature T cells modified with a chimeric antigen receptor has demonstrated improved outcome for B‐cell malignancies. However, its application for others such as Hodgkin lymphoma remains a clinical challenge. CD30 antigen, expressed in Hodgkin lymphoma cells, is absent in most healthy tissues, representing...
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Background and Purpose Around 40–50% of diffuse large-B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients suffer from refractory disease or relapse after R-CHOP first-line treatment. Many ongoing clinical trials for DLBCL patients involve microtubule targeting agents (MTAs), however, their anticancer activity is limited by severe side effects. Therefore, we chose to...
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One hundred and sixty-one patients received a haploSCT with thiotepa, busulphan and fludarabine (TBF) conditioning followed by PTCy (days +3, +4) and tacrolimus as GvHD prophylaxis. Forty-two percent of patients had a high or very high revised disease risk index (rDRI), 55% had an EBMT risk score (EBMT-RS) ≥4 and 36% had a hematopoietic cell transp...
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Introduction The European LeukemiaNet (ELN) 2017 classification for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) stratifies patients in 3 risk categories, according to genetic features of the disease. ELN classification is commonly used to guide post-remission treatment; favorable risk patients do not seem to benefit from allogeneic hematopoietic transplantation (...
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Introduction. Mutations in genes encoding the metabolic enzymes isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) 1 and 2 are found in 10-20% of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Recently, IDH inhibitors have shown good clinical response in patient's refractory to standard treatments, providing evidence for a new treatment paradigm. Comprehensive real-world...
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Background While immunotherapy with anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells has shown significant efficacy in B-cell malignancies, CAR T cells directed against CD30 (CAR30) for the treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) showed modest antitumor effect, with more than 50% of patients being unresponsive. Several factors related to the infused pr...
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BACKGROUND: The progress in the understanding of pathophysiology of AML has allowed the identification of genetic and immune abnormalities with prognostic impact on outcome and suitable as therapeutic targets. The genetic abnormalities are essential for risk allocation and risk-adapted treatment included the indication of hematopoietic cell transpl...
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BACKGROUND After a standard anticoagulation period (3-6 months), the risk of venous thromboembolism recurrence (RVTER) needs to be considered. Such risk is higher in unprovoked events and patients with persistent risk factor. The increase of D-dimer (DD) levels during the therapy seems to be strongly associated to RVTER. The use of rivaroxaban 10 m...
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Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic reflects liver damage. A study carried out in China (Guan WJ et al. N Engl J Med. 2020) reported that in more than 21% of cases there was an elevation of liver enzymes (ELE), with only 2.1% of them having previous liver disease. ELE is frequent in anticoagulated patients and is associated with an increased cardio...
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Introduction:Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) real-world incidence has been investigated in a limited number of European countries such as Sweden, Denmark and a few others. These prospective population-based analyses give a more precise idea of AML as a health problem than registry data from cooperative groups or other sources, that usually include sel...
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Background During SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the anticoagulant management in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) was simplified to the use of low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) in different international guidelines. These recommendations were based for the possible drug interactions between oral anticoagulants and the experimental coronavirus disease...
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The treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is adjusted according to cytogenetic risk factors and molecular markers. Cytarabine remains the main drug to treat AML, and several studies have explored the prognostic relevance of the genotype of cytarabine metabolizing enzymes in AML. Glucuronidation has been identified to be relevant in the cytarabi...
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The results from the RATIFY trial (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00651261; CALGB 10603) showed that midostaurin combined with standard chemotherapy significantly improved outcomes in patients with FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3)–mutated acute myeloid leukemia (AML), compared with placebo. In this post hoc subgroup analysis from the trial, we evaluated t...
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Broad-spectrum antifungal prophylaxis is currently considered the standard of care for adults with de novo AML for the prevention of invasive fungal infections (IFIs), especially invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA). Because fluconazole has been used in our center as anti-yeast prophylaxis, we sought to analyze in detail the incidence of IFIs ove...
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The use of myeloablative conditioning (MAC) in umbilical cord blood transplantation (UCBT) has been associated with high non-relapse mortality (NRM) in patients >40 years, especially those having a high HLA disparity, thus limiting wider applications. We hypothesized that the NRM advantage of reduced intensity conditioning (RIC) and higher GVL asso...
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The impact of measurable residual disease (MRD) on cord blood transplantation (CBT) outcomes has remained debated. To address this issue, we assessed the impact of measurable MRD at CBT on outcomes in large cohort of patients with acute leukemia. Inclusion criteria included adult patients with acute myeloid (AML) or acute lymphoblastic leukemia (AL...
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Introduction Inv(3)(q21.3q26.2)/t(3;3)(q21.3;q26.2) is a rare poor prognosis cytogenetic abnormality present in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and other myeloid neoplasms. Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the outcome of a cohort of 61 patients with newly diagnosed AML with inv(3)/t(3;3) treated with homogeneous intensive chemotherapy...
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In the European LeukemiaNet favourable risk category, allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloSCT) is not indicated in first complete remission for patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) with NPM1 mutations (ELNfav NPM1 AML), although a proportion of these patients will relapse. Given the prognostic importance of measurable re...
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Background In chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a better understanding of leukemic cell characteristics after treatment would help to design specific therapeutic approaches aimed at preventing clinical relapse. Gene arrays have become a powerful approach to perform gene expression profiling; nevertheless, to work with residual cells entails an intensiv...
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Elevated serum ferritin levels occur due to iron overload or during inflammation and macrophage activation. A correlation of high serum ferritin levels with increased mortality after alloSCT has been suggested by several retrospective analyses as well as by two smaller prospective studies. This prospective multicentric study aimed to study the asso...
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Background: Current acute myeloid leukemia (AML) therapy fails to eliminate quiescent leukemic blasts in the bone marrow, leading to about 50% of patient relapse by increasing AML burden in the bone marrow, blood, and extramedullar sites. We developed a protein-based nanoparticle conjugated to the potent antimitotic agent Auristatin E that selecti...
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Background: Novel therapeutic strategies are urgently needed to reduce relapse rates and enhance survival in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) patients. CXCR4-overexpressing cancer cells are good targets for therapy because of their association with dissemination and relapse in R-CHOP treated DLBCL patients. Immunotoxins that incorporate bacter...
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Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) with t(6;9)(p23;q34) is a poor‐risk entity, commonly associated with FLT3‐ITD (internal tandem duplication). Allogeneic stem‐cell tranplantation (allo‐SCT) is recommended, although studies analysing the outcome of allo‐SCT in this setting are lacking. We selected 195 patients with t(6;9) AML, who received a first allo‐...
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Large differences in patient and transplant backgrounds make it difficult to identify consistent prognostic factors of unrelated cord blood transplantation (UCBT) among different populations. Thus, we performed a collaborative study between Eurocord/ALWP-EBMT and JSHCT/JDCHCT. Adults with acute leukaemia who underwent a single UCBT were eligible. I...
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Haploidentical related (Haplo) and umbilical cord blood (UCB) donors are the main “alternative donor” options for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT) for patients without identical donor. At our institution, UCB was the main alternative donor type until 2013, when HaploHCT was introduced as the preferred procedure. A common mye...
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Patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) harboring FLT3 internal tandem duplications (ITDs) have poor outcomes, in particular AML with a high (≥0.5) mutant/wild-type allelic ratio (AR). The 2017 European LeukemiaNet (ELN) recommendations defined 4 distinct FLT3-ITD genotypes based on the ITD AR and the NPM1 mutational status. In this retrospectiv...
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Purpose The addition of midostaurin to standard chemotherapy (cytarabine and daunorubicin) has shown significant improvements in the survival of patients with acute myeloid leukemia with the FLT3 mutation (FLT3-AML). The objective of this study was to determine whether this intervention would be cost-effective in Spain. Methods A partitioned survi...
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INTRODUCTION: Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloSCT) is the only curative strategy for relapsed/refractory T cell lymphoma (T-NHL). In the past ten years, there have been several improvements in conditioning regimens and graft versus host disease prophylaxis (GVHD), which have contributed to lower transplant-related mortality...
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BACKGROUND: AML risk classification is based on genetics (cytogenetics and molecular features) and more recently also on minimal residual disease (MRD) after chemotherapy. These two aspects allow predicting relapse and supporting or not the most anti-leukemia treatment that remains allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). We prospective...
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In many healthcare settings, benchmarking for complex procedures has become a mandatory requirement by competent authorities, regulators, payers and patients to assure clinical performance, cost-effectiveness and safe care of patients. In several countries inside and outside Europe, benchmarking systems have been established for haematopoietic stem...

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