BMT Flashcards
What is an ommaya reservoir?
Plastic device that’s implanted under your scalp. It’s used to deliver medication to your cerebrospinal fluid (CSF),
Chemo that may be administered intrathecally
methotrexate
cytarabine (Ara-C)
hydrocortisone
What does DLI stand for?
Donor leukocyte infusion
What is DLI? When given?
Patients who have received a blood and marrow transplant (BMT) from a related or unrelated donor could still experience a relapse of their underlying disease/cancer. A donor leukocyte infusion (DLI) is a possible strategy for managing a patient in relapse. In this procedure, the patient receives a boost of immune cells from the original donor’s blood. In certain circumstances, it may be extremely effective in controlling recurrent cancer in a patient.
Indications for CAR T cell therapy
- In general–aggressive, relapsed or refractory NHL
1) DLBCL
2) Primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma
3) high grade B-cell lymphoma
4) transformed follicular lymphoma
5) mantle cell lymphoma.
For how long are you at risk of invasive fungal infection following transplant?
Risk remains elevated for first few months, even after recovery of neutrophil counts (so you need to continue anti fungal prophylaxis during this time)
Vyxeos is
daunorubicin and cytarabine
Haploidentical means
- half- matched donor to replace the unhealthy ones.
- donor is typically a family member
Cell line that is first to recover
monocytes
How DA-EPOCH-R is referred to
Dose adjusted EPOCH-R
DA-EPOCH-R contains
Etoposide, prednisone, oncovin (vincristine), doxorubicin hhydrochloride, cyclophosphamide, rituximab
DA-EPOCH-R used for
NHL + b-cell lymphoma
Use of VDT PACE
RRMM
VDT PACE is
Bortezomib Dexamethasone Thalidomide Doxorubicin Cyclophosphamide Etoposide
To know about MTX use
order level 24h after last dose (typically by pharmacy as part of orderset)
Repeat MTX level daily (often a send out)
IF high → uptitrate leucovorin
Give leucovorin until MTX level >0.1
Discharge when level is >0.1
Leucovorin dosing with MTX
q6h
Common etiology of fevers post transplant
Engraftment
HCT means
hematopoietic cell transplantation
Transfusion goals
Hgb <7
Plt <10
Ppx during leukemia induction
(bacterial + HSV)
Acyclovir 400 mg PO BID
IF high risk (expected ANC<500 for 7 days (induction for AML or HCT)) → Start levoquin 500 mg PO daily on first day of start of cytotoxic chemo
TBI stands for
total body irradiation
VOD prophylaxis
ursodiol
Hepatic SOS (veno-occlusive disease) timing + context
Occurs days or weeks after HCT
Hepatic SOS or VOD clinical features
Thrombocytopenia + hepatomegaly + ascites + jaundice
- can rapidly progress to multiorgan dysfunction and death
Age cutoff for myeloablative transplant
65 (in europe, 77 in us)
Treatment of EBV post transplant
Rituxan
Order of recovery of cell lines after engraftment
neutrophils, then T cells, RBC’s, platelets
Clinical features of primary graft failure
cell lines continue downtrending and don’t respond (no engraftment)
management of primary graft failure
do bx → then usually have to repeat graft
Transplant referred to as
infusion
Presentation of CMV
- mono like syndrome + organ specific involvement (hepatitis, colitis, pneumonitis)
When CMV typically occurs after solid organ transplantation
- within first few months
Explanation for why CMV-positive recipients may still develop CMV from CMV-positive donors
- several strains of CMV don’t confer cross-immunity
1st and second best CMV status
1) seronegative donor and recipient
2) seropositive donor and seronegative recipient (a seropositive donor has immunity that can be transferred to recipient and recipient does not have dormant CMV that can be reactivated)
Preferred conditioning regimens at UMass for allo’s
1) Flu/cy + TBI
2) Bu/Flu + TBI
Flu/cy is
Fludarabine + high dose cytoxan
Bu/Flu is
busulfan + fludarabine
Preferred prophylaxis for GVHD at UMass + other 2 medications used for GVHD prophylaxis
- Cytoxan
- Mycophenolate + tacrolimus
When cytoxan is given after transplant for GVHD prophylaxis
D+3/4
tacro level goal, generally speaking
5-10
first and second line for chronic GVHD
1 mg/kg prednisone
- ???
“death from transplant” term in malignant heme
Relapse free mortality
mortality rate of allo transplant
Around 10%
Percentage of allo transplant recipients who get GVHD
50%!
Conditioning regimen for autos + dose
melphalan 200 mg/m2
Indications for auto transplants
1) Multiple myeloma
2) MCL
3) RR lymphoma (DLBCL and t cell)
4) Refractory HL
conditioning regimen typically used in auto transplants for RR lymphoma
BEAM
when myeloma patients are taken for transplant typically
CR1
beta d glucan tests for
candida
test for aspergillus
galactomanan
fluconazole covers and does not cover
candida, does not cover molds
Standard of care antifungal prophylaxis for leukemics + patients with long duration of neutropenia
- posaconazole
- cresemba (broader coverage)