Secondary autoimmune diseases occurring after HSCT for an autoimmune disease: a retrospective study of the EBMT Autoimmune Disease Working Party.

• To specify incidence and risk factors for secondary autoimmune diseases (AD) after HSCT for a primary AD, we retrospectively analysed AD patients treated by HSCT reported to EBMT from 1995 to 2009 with at least one secondary AD (cases) and those without (controls). After autologous HSCT, 29 amongst 347 patients developed at least one secondary AD within 21.9 (0.6-49) months and after allogeneic HSCT, 3 amongst 16 patients. The observed secondary AD included: autoimmune hemolytic anemia (n=3), acquired haemophilia (n=3), autoimmune thrombocytopenia (n=3), antiphospholipid syndrome (n=2), thyroiditis (n=12), blocking TSHR-ab (n=1), Graves' disease (n=2), myasthenia gravis (n=1), rheumatoid arthritis (n=2), sarcoidosis (n=2), vasculitis (n=1), psoriasis (n=1) and psoriatic arthritis (n=1). After autologous HSCT for primary AD, the cumulative incidence of secondary AD was 9.8+/-2 % at 5 years, lupus erythematosus as primary AD and antithymocyte-globulin use plus CD34+ graft selection were important risk factors for secondary AD by multivariate analysis. With a median follow-up of 6.2 (0.54-11) years after autologous HSCT, 26/29 patients with secondary AD were alive, 2 died during their secondary AD (antiphospholipid syndrome, haemophilia) and 1 death was HSCT related. This European multicenter study underlines the need for careful management and follow-up for secondary AD after HSCT.

Subject headings

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Klinisk medicin -- Pediatrik (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Clinical Medicine -- Pediatrics (hsv//eng)

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Klinisk medicin -- Hematologi (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Clinical Medicine -- Hematology (hsv//eng)

Keyword

pediatrisk reumatologi

hematopoietisk stamcellstransplantation

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