PMID- 36129238 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20221031 LR - 20221206 IS - 1545-5017 (Electronic) IS - 1545-5009 (Linking) VI - 69 IP - 12 DP - 2022 Dec TI - Outcomes of patients who underwent treatment for anti-HLA donor-specific antibodies before receiving a haploidentical hematopoietic cell transplant. PG - e29993 LID - 10.1002/pbc.29993 [doi] AB - Pediatric and adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients who receive many blood product transfusions, such as individuals with sickle cell disease (SCD), severe aplastic anemia (SAA) or indolent hematologic malignancies, are at high risk for developing donor-specific antibodies (DSA). DSAs with mean fluorescence intensity (MFI) greater than 5000 have been associated with significant graft failure, but lower MFI values between 2000 and 5000 may result in poor graft function after hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT). Desensitization strategies have been developed to reduce the DSA burden in HCT recipients before graft infusion, but the experience with these strategies in the pediatric and AYA populations is not well described in the literature. Here, we describe our experience with successful desensitization by using a combination of treatment strategies in five pediatric and AYA patients, including a novel use of daratumumab in a young adult patient who had refractory DSAs and had suffered serious side effects from conventional desensitization strategies. The presence of elevated DSAs in pediatric and AYA recipients of a human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-mismatched haploidentical HCT can be overcome by a multipronged treatment strategy. CI - (c) 2022 Wiley Periodicals LLC. FAU - Lipsitt, Amanda AU - Lipsitt A AD - Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. FAU - Arnold, Paula AU - Arnold P AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9493-7982 AD - Department of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. FAU - Chi, Liying AU - Chi L AD - Department of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. FAU - Carruthers, Katharine AU - Carruthers K AD - Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. FAU - Folk, Sophia AU - Folk S AD - Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. FAU - Fossey, Sallyanne AU - Fossey S AD - Transplant Immunology Laboratory, Dialysis Clinic Inc, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. FAU - Keerthi, Dinesh AU - Keerthi D AD - Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. FAU - Mamcarz, Ewelina AU - Mamcarz E AD - Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. FAU - Srinivasan, Ashok AU - Srinivasan A AD - Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. FAU - Sharma, Akshay AU - Sharma A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3281-2081 AD - Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20220921 PL - United States TA - Pediatr Blood Cancer JT - Pediatric blood & cancer JID - 101186624 RN - 0 (HLA Antigens) RN - 0 (Antibodies) SB - IM MH - Young Adult MH - Adolescent MH - Humans MH - Child MH - *Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation MH - Graft Survival MH - HLA Antigens MH - Tissue Donors MH - Transplantation Conditioning MH - Antibodies MH - Graft Rejection OTO - NOTNLM OT - desensitization OT - donor-specific antibodies OT - hematopoietic cell transplant EDAT- 2022/09/22 06:00 MHDA- 2022/11/01 06:00 CRDT- 2022/09/21 08:33 PHST- 2022/08/08 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/07/05 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/08/22 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/09/22 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/11/01 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/09/21 08:33 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/pbc.29993 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2022 Dec;69(12):e29993. doi: 10.1002/pbc.29993. Epub 2022 Sep 21.