Successful autologous bone marrow transplantation in second remission of malignant histiocytosis

Bone Marrow Transplant. 1990 Jun;5(6):431-3.

Abstract

This report describes an 18-year-old man with disseminated malignant histiocytosis (MH). The patient initially attained complete remission (CR1) with conventional chemotherapy and then relapsed 14 months later. In second complete remission (CR2) 2 years and 8 months after initial diagnosis, an autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT) was undertaken following conditioning with the BEAM regimen. Bone marrow collected in CR2 was incubated with mafosfamide at a dose adjusted to the individual sensitivity of normal CFU-GM according to our current protocol. At the time of writing, 4 years post-transplant, this patient remains disease free. This is the first report of ABMT with marrow treated in vitro by mafosfamide in MH.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Bleomycin / therapeutic use
  • Bone Marrow Transplantation*
  • Cyclophosphamide / therapeutic use
  • Doxorubicin / therapeutic use
  • Histiocytic Sarcoma / drug therapy
  • Histiocytic Sarcoma / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Prednisone / therapeutic use
  • Remission Induction
  • Transplantation, Autologous*
  • Vincristine / therapeutic use

Substances

  • Bleomycin
  • Vincristine
  • Doxorubicin
  • Cyclophosphamide
  • Prednisone