Late chimerical status after bone marrow transplantation in severe aplastic anemia according to two different preparatory regimens

ABSTRACT Background: This study investigated the influence of two conditioning regimens on the chimerical status of 104 patients with acquired severe aplastic anemia. Methods: Patients were monitored for at least 18 months after related bone marrow transplantation and reaching partial or complete hematologic recovery. Group I patients (n = 55) received 200 mg/kg cyclophosphamide alone and Group II (n = 49) received 120 mg/kg cyclophosphamide associated with 12 mg/kg busulfan. Patients were classified in three chimerism levels according to the percentage of donor cells in the peripheral blood. Results: Chimerism ≤50% occurred in 36.4% of Group I and none of Group II; chimerism 51-90% was found in 20.0% of Group I and 10.2% of Group II; and chimerism >90% was found in 43.6% of Group I versus 89.8% of Group II. A significant association (p-value < 0.001) was found between conditioning type and chimerism levels. A higher number of infused cells was associated with higher levels of chimerism only in Group I (p-value = 0.013). Multivariate analysis showed that chimerism >90% is associated with the cyclophosphamide plus busulfan conditioning (p-value < 0.001) and higher number of infused cells (p-value = 0.009), suggesting that these factors are predictive of graft outcome. Regarding hematological recovery, higher chimerism levels were associated with higher neutrophil (p-value = 0.003) and platelet counts (p-value < 0.001) in Group I only. These results show that myeloablative conditioning favors full donor chimerism and non-myeloablative conditioning predisposes to mixed chimerism or autologous recovery of hematopoiesis. Conclusion: These data show that autologous recovery depends on the intensity of immunosuppression and that the immunosuppressive function of cyclophosphamide alone can induce this type of hematopoietic recovery.

Factores que influyen en la presencia de colecistitis y colelitiasis en los pacientes atendidos en el servicio de Cirugía del Hospital Enrique Garcés, de abril de 1985 a marzo 1986 / Factors that influence in the presence of colecistitis and colelitiasis in the patients taken care of in the service of Surgery of the Hospital Enrique Garcés, of April of 1985 to March 1986

El presente trabajo se realizó tomando en cuenta la alta incidencia e colecistitis y colelitiasis que se presentó en los pacientes atendidos en el servicio de cirugía del Hospital Enrique Garcés en el Período comprendido de abril del 85 a marzo del 86. Para el desarrollo del mismo hemos tenido serias limitaciones como: la falta de bibliografía, como trabajos de investigación sobre el tema objeto de nuestro estudio; cabe mencionar la dificultad para la obtención de información estadística de otras instituciones de salud como son el Hospital Eugenio Espejo y el Hospital Carlos Andrade Marín. A Pesar de las limitaciones mencionadas hemos superado los problemas tratándo que el presente trabajo de investigación, se acerque lo más posible a la realidad y pueda servir de guía para futuras investigaciones...