Abstract
Purpose
Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is a curative therapy for most patients with inborn errors of immunity (IEI). We conducted a nationwide study on HCT for patients with IEI other than severe combined immunodeficiency (non-SCID) in Japan.
Methods
Data from the Japanese national database (Transplant Registry Unified Management Program, TRUMP) for 566 patients with non-SCID IEI, who underwent their first HCT between 1985 and 2016, were retrospectively analyzed.
Results
The 10-year overall survival (OS) and event-free survival (EFS) were 74% and 64%, respectively. The 10-year OS for HCT from unrelated bone marrow (URBM), accounting for 39% of HCTs, was comparable to that for HCT from matched sibling donor (MSD), 79% and 81%, respectively. HCT from unrelated cord blood (URCB), accounting for 28% of HCTs, was also common, with a 10-year OS of 69% but less robust engraftment. The intensity of conditioning was not associated with OS or neutrophil recovery; however, myeloablative conditioning was more frequently associated with infection-related death. Patients who received myeloablative irradiation showed poor OS. Multivariate analyses revealed that HCT in 1985–1995 (hazard ratio [HR], 2.0; P = 0.03), URCB (HR, 2.0; P = 0.01), and related donor other than MSD (ORD) (HR, 2.9; P < 0.001) were associated with poor OS, and URCB (HR, 3.6; P < 0.001) and ORD (HR, 2.7; P = 0.02) showed a higher incidence of retransplantation.
Conclusions
We present the 1985–2016 status of HCT for non-SCID IEI in Japan with sufficient statistical power, highlighting the potential of URBM as an alternative donor and the feasibility of reduced intensity conditioning.
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Data Availability
The datasets presented in this article are not readily available because they belong to the JSTCT and the Japanese Data Center for Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation (JDCHCT). Requests to access the datasets should be directed to http://www.jdchct.or.jp/.
Code Availability
All statistical analyses were performed using the Stata software v16.1 and EZR 1.42.
Abbreviations
- aGVHD:
-
Acute graft-versus-host disease
- BM:
-
Bone marrow
- CGD:
-
Chronic granulomatous disease
- cGVHD:
-
Chronic graft-versus-host disease
- CI:
-
Confidence interval
- CID:
-
Combined immunodeficiency
- EFS:
-
Event-free survival
- FHL:
-
Familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
- GVHD:
-
Graft-versus-host disease
- HCT:
-
Hematopoietic cell transplantation
- HLH:
-
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
- HR:
-
Hazard ratio
- IEI:
-
Inborn errors of immunity
- IUIS:
-
International Union of Immunological Societies
- JSTCT:
-
Japanese Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
- MAC:
-
Myeloablative conditioning
- MSD:
-
Matched sibling donor
- ORD:
-
Other related donor
- OS:
-
Overall survival
- PB:
-
Peripheral blood
- PGF:
-
Primary graft failure
- PIRD:
-
Primary immune regulatory disorder
- RIC:
-
Reduced intensity conditioning
- SCID:
-
Severe combined immunodeficiency
- SCN:
-
Severe congenital neutropenia
- SGF:
-
Secondary graft failure
- TBI:
-
Total body irradiation
- TRUMP:
-
Transplant Registry Unified Management Program
- URBM:
-
Unrelated bone marrow
- URCB:
-
Unrelated cord blood
- URCBT:
-
Unrelated cord blood transplantation
- WAS:
-
Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome
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Acknowledgements
We thank the Japan Marrow Donor Program, the cord blood banks in Japan, and the staff at the participating hospitals who attended to the patients and provided information for the TRUMP registry. We also thank Soichi Adachi, Shunichi Kato, Yasuo Horikoshi, Miharu Yabe, Nao Yoshida, Hiromitsu Takakura, Sae Ishimaru, Shinya Osone, Hidetoshi Takada, Nozomu Kawashima, Shinobu Tamura, Ayako Yamamori, Koji Kawaguchi, Akira Nishimura, Risa Matsumura, and Takako Miyamura, who supported this study as members of the Hereditary Disorder Working Group of the Japanese Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy. We would also like to thank Kay Tanita for her support in preparing the figures.
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This work was supported by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare [grant number 20FC1053], and Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development [grant numbers JP19lk0201100 and JP19gk0110041].
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SM designed the research, analyzed the data, and wrote the manuscript. KU, MYan, AI, YS, HY, and KK revised the manuscript. MKu and YA verified the analytical method and analyzed the data. KO, TK, RT, MI, MYam, MS, YT, MKa, and HK recruited the patients and collected the data. MI, YH, and KK contributed to transplantation data management as members of the Japanese Data Center for hematopoietic cell transplantation. KI and TM designed the research and revised the manuscript. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.
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Miyamoto, S., Umeda, K., Kurata, M. et al. Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Inborn Errors of Immunity Other than Severe Combined Immunodeficiency in Japan: Retrospective Analysis for 1985–2016. J Clin Immunol 42, 529–545 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10875-021-01199-w
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