Description Module
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Description Module
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2025-12-25 @ 2:45 AM
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NCT ID:
NCT00885833
Brief Summary:
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is a rare X-linked congenital immune-deficiency syndrome and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) has become a curative modality. But the transplant with the conventional conditioning resulted in high incidence of treatment related toxicities and non-myeloablative conditioning resulted in high incidence of engraftment failure. Recently, fludarabine based reduced toxicity myeloablative conditioning regimen was developed for adult myeloid malignancies with promising result of good engraftment and low treatment related toxicities. To increase the engraftment potential without serious complication, reduced toxicity myeloablative conditioning regimen composed of fludarabine, busulfan, and thymoglobulin is designed for Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome.
Detailed Description:
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is an rare X-linked congenital immune-deficiency syndrome characterized by the triad of recurrent infection, eczema and thrombocytopenia with small size of platelet (Puck JM, 2006). Clinical studies revealed high rate of autoimmune disorder and malignancy in WAS (Ochs HD, 2006). The identification of the molecular defect in 1994 (Derry JM, 1994) has broadened the clinical spectrum of the syndrome to include chronic or intermittent X-linked thrombocytopenia (XLT), a relatively mild form of WAS and X-lined neutropenia caused by an arrest of myelopoiesis (Ochs HD, 2006).
The incidence of WAS in Korea was very low and only 6 patients diagnosed between 2001 and 2005 (Kim JG, 2006).
Conventional treatments for WAS such as prophylactic antibiotics and immune globin for infection and platelet transfusion for bleeding were not so successful (Thrasher AJ, 2000). Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) from an HLA-matched related donor is an effective treatment (Filipovich AH, 2001) and patients without appropriate related donor could receive alternative stem cell source such as matched unrelated donor or cord blood. But the transplant with the alternative donor needed more intensive conditioning to overcome the hematologic and immunologic barrier with increased treatment related toxicity. Further progress depends in particular on the development of alternative preparative conditioning regimens which allow stable engraftment of donor precursor cells with minimal systemic toxic side effects (Friedrich W, 2004).
Recently, we reported successful unrelated bone marrow transplantation in a boy with WAS with reduced toxicity myeloablative conditioning regimen to increase the engraftment potential without serious complication (Kang, 2008), and extended to multicenter phase I/II pilot study with this reduced toxicity myeloablative conditioning regimen in the HSCT for WAS.
Study:
NCT00885833
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT00885833