Hematological Disorders Clinical Trials

BACKGROUND Diamond Blackfan anemia (DBA) is a heterogeneous genetic disorder characterized by pure red cell aplasia, congenital anomalies, a predisposition to pancytopenia and myelodysplasia as well as hematopoietic and non-hematopoietic cancer. Anemia usually presents in infancy or early childhood and greater than 40% of patients have at least one congenital ...

The purpose of this study is to obtain tissue samples for ongoing studies regarding transplant outcomes and complications.

OBJECTIVES: - To assess the safety and feasibility of reduced-intensity preparative regimen comprising fludarabine, busulfan, and alemtuzumab followed by allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in patients with hematological malignancies or other diseases. - To assess the rate of donor engraftment in patients treated with this regimen. OUTLINE: This is a ...

To determine the time to and rate of hematologic engraftment following unrelated umbilical cord blood transplantation in adults with one or two cord blood units using total body irradiation and fludarabine as the transplant conditioning regimen and cyclosporine/MMF as graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis.

OBJECTIVES: Primary - Evaluate the incidence of graft acceptance in patients with hematological disorders treated with combined immunosuppression before and after HLA-haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Secondary - Evaluate efficacy of this regimen in these patients. - Evaluate toxicity of this regimen in these patients. - Assess survival of patients ...

The study evaluates the effects of a supervised exercise program on the physical performance, the mood and the complications of therapy in patients undergoing a high-dose chemotherapy followed by an autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation.

The trial will evaluate the effects of aerobic exercise in patients undergoing chemotherapy for the treatment of a hematological neoplastic disease.

In stem cell transplantation as treatment for malignant diseases, calcineurin inhibitors like cyclosporine A are commonly used to prevent tissue destruction (GvHD) by activated donor immune cells. The hypothesis for this study is, that replacing calcineurin inhibitors by everolimus and mycophenolate as GvHD prophylaxis not only reduces toxicity of the ...

Study Design Phase I-II study. Neutrophil recovery > 80% at day 60 and Platelets recovery > 80% at days 100 are defined as success. The limit of 60 days for neutrophil recovery was chosen because it represents the time at which rescue with a second transplant is decided in case ...

This protocol is designed to allow the evaluation, follow up, and standard medical care of patients (and when appropriate, their stem cell donor) with bone marrow failure states, cytopenias, metastatic solid tumors, or hematologic malignancies not currently entered on an active NHLBI Hematology Branch protocol or not being screened for ...