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Chronic Granulomatous Disease-Associated IBD Resolves and Does Not Adversely Impact Survival Following Allogeneic HCT

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Abstract

Introduction

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects approximately 1/3 of patients with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD). Comprehensive investigation of the effect of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) on CGD IBD and the impact of IBD on transplant outcomes is lacking.

Methods

We collected data retrospectively from 145 patients with CGD who had received allogeneic HCT at 26 Primary Immune Deficiency Treatment Consortium (PIDTC) centers between January 1, 2005 and June 30, 2016.

Results

Forty-nine CGD patients with IBD and 96 patients without IBD underwent allogeneic HCT. Eighty-nine percent of patients with IBD and 93% of patients without IBD engrafted (p = 0.476). Upper gastrointestinal acute GVHD occurred in 8.5% of patients with IBD and 3.5% of patients without IBD (p = 0.246). Lower gastrointestinal acute GVHD occurred in 10.6% of patients with IBD and 11.8% of patients without IBD (p = 0.845). The cumulative incidence of acute GVHD grades II–IV was 30% (CI 17–43%) in patients with IBD and 20% (CI 12–29%) in patients without IBD (p = 0.09). Five-year overall survival was equivalent for patients with and without IBD: 80% [CI 66–89%] and 83% [CI 72–90%], respectively (p = 0.689). All 33 surviving evaluable patients with a history of IBD experienced resolution of IBD by 2 years following allogeneic HCT.

Conclusions

In this cohort, allogeneic HCT was curative for CGD-associated IBD. IBD should not contraindicate HCT, as it does not lead to an increased risk of mortality.

This study is registered at clinicaltrials.gov NCT02082353.

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  • 29 August 2020

    The original version of this article unfortunately contained the missing author, Caridad Martinez. The authors would like to correct the list. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused. The correct author list is shown above.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Elizabeth Dunn and Tara Bani-Hashemi for project management and assistance. We thank all of the study coordinators for collection of clinical data from PIDTC sites. We thank all of the clinical care teams who provided care for patients.

Funding

The PIDTC is supported by the Division of Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID); and the Office of Rare Diseases Research (ORDR), National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD; Public Health Service grant/cooperative agreements U54-AI082973 (PI: MJ Cowan), U54-NS064808 and U01-TR001263 (PI: JP Krischer) and R13-AI094943 (PI: MJ Cowan).

The PIDTC is a part of the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN) of ORDR, NCATS. The content and opinions expressed are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not represent the official policy or position of the NIAID, ORDR, NCATS, NIH, or any other agency of the US Government.

Support was also provided by the Division of Intramural Research, NIAID, NIH (EMK, LDN, HLM, PG and DG).

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The eligibility review expert panel (MJC, DBK, EMK, RAM, LMG, SP, JMP, LDN, EH, JWL, ES, MAP) reviewed each submitted case to assess eligibility criteria. The study was designed by EMK, HLM, LDN, and LMG. MJC, JMP, EH, DBK, LMG, LDN, and SYP served as senior leadership on the PIDTC Steering Committee. RAM, JWL, HLM, SP, and EMK wrote the first draft of the manuscript. BRL, ZY, and KP performed statistical analyses. RAM, JWL, DA, EH, ELF, EA, JJB, KES, JH, LMB, SSS, SC, LY, BRO, GC, MT, KC, PT, SS, RP, LF, DC, BJDS, AJS, KW, AJ, FB, TQ, CCD, DG, TT, PG, VP, AK, HC, HM, MTLM, KDS, MJC, LDN, DBK, ES, SYP, JMR, JMP, NK, MAP, HLM, SP, and EMK contributed patients and/or provided clinical care and/or entered patient data. All authors edited the manuscript and contributed to the subsequent versions.

LMG, an employee of DAIT, NIAID, the funding source, also participated as a PIDTC study team member in the interpretation of data, writing of the manuscript, and decision to submit the manuscript for publication.

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Correspondence to Elizabeth M. Kang.

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Key Points

• CGD-associated inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) resolves after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT).

• Five-year survival following allogeneic HCT was greater than 80% in this PIDTC CGD cohort, and baseline IBD did not adversely affect survival.

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Marsh, R.A., Leiding, J.W., Logan, B.R. et al. Chronic Granulomatous Disease-Associated IBD Resolves and Does Not Adversely Impact Survival Following Allogeneic HCT. J Clin Immunol 39, 653–667 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10875-019-00659-8

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