Access Protocol. Infusion of CD34+ Enriched, T Cell Depleted Hematopoietic Stem Cell Grafts.
This clinical trial studies the use of a second infusion of donor hematopoietic cells that have had removal of T cells for the treatment of engraftment failure after a first hematopoietic stem cell transplant. Hematopoietic cell transplants from donors can be complicated by complete or incomplete failure of recovery of blood counts. This results in frequent needs for transfusions and other methods to maintain blood counts at acceptable levels. One way of improving the blood counts in the recipient is to give a booster dose of cells from the donor, but this is associated with increased risk of an immune reaction from the donor cells against the recipient cells. To decrease this risk, it is possible to decrease the amount of T cells, responsible for this type of immune reaction. These cells are removed by a special handling of the graft, which allows to remove the cells directly or indirectly (by selecting other cells to stay in the graft).
• Patients who received a prior hematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation, including matched sibling and unrelated donor transplants, mismatched sibling and unrelated donor transplants and haploidentical transplants from related donors
• Patients with a presence of secondary engraftment failure defined as decrease in donor chimerism by ≥ 50% (i.e. 40% to 20%) in two measurements done at least 30 days apart
• OR a presence of incomplete graft function manifested by presence of persistent or new cytopenias 60 or more days after transplantation:
‣ Anemia; hemoglobin less than 8g/dL, or red blood cell transfusion requirements over the preceding 4 weeks
⁃ Neutropenia, with absolute neutrophil count less than 1,000 neutrophils per microliter or requirement of growth factor support over the preceding 4 weeks
⁃ Thrombocytopenia, with platelet counts below 20,000 platelets per microliter or platelet transfusion requirements over the preceding 4 weeks