Clinical Hematology International

Volume 3, Issue 3, September 2021
Review Article

1. Therapeutic Use of Convalescent Plasma in COVID-19 Infected Patients with Concomitant Hematological Disorders

Francesco Lanza, Vanessa Agostini, Federica Monaco, Francesco Passamonti, Jerard Seghatchian
Pages: 77 - 82
The use of convalescent plasma (CP) from individuals recovered from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a promising therapeutic modality for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). CP has been in use for at least a century to provide passive immunity against a number of diseases,...
Review Article

2. History and Development of Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation for Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Norbert Claude Gorin
Pages: 83 - 95
This review describes the development of cryopreservation, the birth of autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) and its past and present use to consolidate adult patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). It summarizes the first autografts in patients in relapse, the experience of autografting...
Research Article

3. High Sensitivity Troponin T and NT-proBNP in Patients Receiving Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-Cell Therapy

Jiun-Ruey Hu, Ameet Patel, Shi Huang, Yan Ru Su, Kimberly B. Dahlman, Kelsey Tomasek, Yueli Zhang, Richard T. O’Neil, Jamye F. O’Neal, Isik Turker, Douglas B. Johnson, Joe-Elie Salem, Javid J. Moslehi, Olalekan Oluwole
Pages: 96 - 102
Retrospective studies suggest that chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR T) therapy may lead to cardiac injury, but this has not been assessed systematically or prospectively. In this prospective study of 40 patients who received CAR T, we systematically measured high-sensitivity troponin T (hsTropT)...
Research Article

4. CD3/CD19 Depletion for T-cell Reduction of Allogeneic Transplants: Mostly Efficient, but not Robust

Eliza Wiercinska, Erhard Seifried, Halvard Bonig
Pages: 103 - 107
Aggressive T-cell depletion, in vitro or in vivo, is a prerequisite for survival of haplo-identical stem cell transplantation. The classical T-cell-depleted transplant, immunomagnetically enriched CD34+ cells, is very safe with respect to graft-versus-host reactivity, but associated with very high transplant-related...
Research Article

5. Baseline Photos and Confident Annotation Improve Automated Detection of Cutaneous Graft-Versus-Host Disease

Xiaoqi Liu, Kelsey Parks, Inga Saknite, Tahsin Reasat, Austin D. Cronin, Lee E. Wheless, Benoit M. Dawant, Eric R. Tkaczyk
Pages: 108 - 115
Cutaneous erythema is used in diagnosis and response assessment of cutaneous chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD). The development of objective erythema evaluation methods remains a challenge. We used a pre-trained neural network to segment cGVHD erythema by detecting changes relative to a patient’s...
Correspondence

6. The Impact of Achieving Complete Remission Prior to Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation on Progression-Free Survival in Hodgkin Lymphoma

Nadira Duraković, Zinaida Perić, Sandra Bašić Kinda, Lana Desnica, Dino Dujmović, Ivo Radman Livaja, Ranka Serventi Seiwerth, Igor Aurer, Radovan Vrhovac
Pages: 116 - 118