Successful treatment of aplastic anemia-paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria associated with eosinophilic fasciitis with matched unrelated donor allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation

Koji Sasaki; Uday Popat; Preetesh Jain; Tapan Kadia; Krina Patel; Keyur Patel; Nitin Jain; Koichi Takahashi; Ken Young; Roberto N Miranda; Thein H Oo; Huifang Lu; Naveen Pemmaraju

doi:10.1002/ccr3.613

Successful treatment of aplastic anemia-paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria associated with eosinophilic fasciitis with matched unrelated donor allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation

Clin Case Rep. 2016 Jul 6;4(8):765-7. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.613. eCollection 2016 Aug.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas USA.
² Department of Leukemia The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas USA.
³ Department of Hematopathology The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas USA.
⁴ Section of Benign Hematology The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas USA.
⁵ Department of General Internal Medicine Section of Rheumatology The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas USA.

Abstract

We report the first patient case of successful treatment intervention for both eosinophilic fasciitis and aplastic anemia with allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation from a matched unrelated donor after multiple immunosuppressant failure.

Keywords: Aplastic anemia–paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria syndrome; eosinophilic fasciitis; stem cell transplantation.

Publication types

Case Reports

Grants and funding

P30 CA016672/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States