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indications of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

(BBMT 2015;21:1863; BMT 2015;50:1037)

Malignant disease:

  • Auto HSCT allows high-dose myeloablative chemo and then rescue what would be otherwise lethal cytopenias with autologous stem cells.
  • Used in chemosensitive diseases
    • relapsed/refractory DLBCL,
    • MM,
    • testicular germ cell tumor.
  • Allo HSCT produces graft-vs.-tumor (GVT) effect, in addition to hematopoietic rescue
    • AML
    • ALL
    • MDS
    • CML-blast crisis
    • CLL
    • lymphoma

Nonmalignant disease:

allo HSCT replaces abnl lymphohematopoietic system w/ one from nl donor

  • immunodeficiencies
  • aplastic anemia
  • hemoglobinopathies