Salvage Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant save a boy
On
July 28, 2015, a young man under the age of 17 was hospitalized for sustained
high fever and was diagnosed with T-ALL. There was no sign of relief after 1 circle
chemotherapy in the local hospital.
From
the wardmate recommenation, he admitted Lu Daopei Hospital for treatment on September 8, 2015.
The admitted genetic test showed he got TP53 V31I mutationand identified as
TCR-rd+T and TP53 mutation-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The disease condition
is rare and bad prognosis,
On
September 17, 2015, he got another Hyper-CVAD chemotherapy protocol,but it was not working
yet.
The
third chemotherapy protocol(MTX+L-asp+Dex) was started on October 10, 2015,but
it got a bad results yet
For
the difficult conditio, doctors decided to try salvage hematopoietic stem cell transplant for
the last chance.
On December 4 to 5, he was infused HLA5/10, bone marrow + peripheral blood stem cells from his father. After the successful BMT, he has overcomed serious GVHD, viral pneumonia, herpes zoster and other side effect or diseases with treatment.
So
far, he is in good healthy condition. Hope
he will be better soon and have a better life.