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Filter by:Background: - Some treatments for cancer or other diseases can lead to infertility in women. These treatments include chemotherapy, some stem cell transplants, and pelvic radiotherapy. They are called gonadotoxic therapies. Women can now have their eggs frozen before they have these treatments. This may allow them to get pregnant later. Researchers want to learn more about this technology and processes. Objectives: - To provide egg freezing for women having gonadotoxic therapies at NIH. To learn more about the effects of these therapies. Eligibility: - Women at least 18 years old who are past puberty and before menopause. They must be scheduled to have gonadotoxic therapies. Design: - Participants will be screened with medical history and blood and hormone tests. They will also have a physical exam and transvaginal ultrasound. - Ovary stimulation: participants will have medications injected under the skin. These increase the chance of fertility. This phase will take about 8 20 days. Participants will have blood drawn and transvaginal ultrasound daily or every other day. Some participants will also have blood thinner injected daily. - Egg retrieval: participants will check in to the hospital. Eggs will be removed with a needle during a short surgery. Participants will be awake but sedated. - Participants may stay overnight in the hospital. - They will return every 1 3 days for 1 3 weeks for blood tests. - Mature eggs will be frozen after egg retrieval and immature eggs (which cannot be fertilized for clinical use) will be used for research. Participants can use their eggs in the future at outside, private fertility clinics to try to become pregnant. If the eggs are stored for more than 5 years, participants must pay for storage.
Severe acquired aplastic anaemia (SAA) is a bone marrow failure disease characterized by pancytopenia and a hypocellular bone marrow. The corn pathophysiological mechanism is the destruction of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells mediated by auto-reactive effector T cells. Immunosuppressive therapy with horse antithymocyte globulin (ATG) plus cyclosporine (CSA) is currently the standard of treatment in patients with aplastic anaemia who are not eligible for bone marrow transplantation and with response rates from 40% to 70%. Previous studies showed that horse ATG (hATG) is apparently more effective than rabbit ATG (rATG) as the latter has higher treatment related mortality (TRM). Unfortunately hATG is unavailable in China, so we conduct a optimized standard treatment (9 days protocol) of rATG plus CSA and Levamisole (LMS) Sequential maintaining (termed Optimized Standard Protocol, OSP) for severe aplastic anemia. This prospective study is designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Optimized Standard Protocol as first line therapy in newly diagnosed severe aplastic anemia patients.
Fludarabine-based preparative regimen followed by an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant using related or unrelated donor in persons 0-70 years of age diagnosed with dyskeratosis congenita or severe aplastic anemia who have bone marrow failure characterized by a requirement for red blood cell and platelet transfusions. Three different preparative regimens are included based on disease and donor type.
The present study will be conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of AMG531 and to determine the recommended initial dose of AMG531 on the basis of its efficacy and safety when it is administered subcutaneously (SC) to the Aplastic Anemia (AA) patients with immunosuppressive-therapy refractory thrombocytopenia and also to assess the pharmacokinetics of this product. Its efficacy and safety during the extension period beyond one year will also be evaluated.
Decrease in blood cell counts due to deficient bone marrow function, called bone marrow failure, as well as some lung diseases, called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, can be caused by genetic defects in telomere biology genes, eventually causing telomere erosion. These disorders are collectively termed "telomeropathies". There is evidence that male hormones may improve blood cell counts in marrow failure, and these hormones are able to stimulate telomerase function in hematopoietic cells in vitro. We propose this study to the use of male hormone in patients with aplastic anemia and pulmonary fibrosis associated with defects in telomeres.
Acquired Aplastic anemia is one of the most frequent reason of bone marrow failure in East (Pakistan). - The first treatment option is Allogenic Bone Marrow transplantation which is an expansive treatment option and also require a full matched HLA identical donor, hence hardly 25% of our affected patients get opportunity for BMT. - The second line treatment option caters a large chunk of patients (severe and non-severe AA) along with those who lack HLA identical donor. Previously many protocols had been used in past for ATG+CsA Treatment, this treatment protocol especially addresses the two different regimens of ATG to study its efficacy, durability and long-term effects. Following doses would be used: - CsA+ATG @ 10mg/kg for 3 days - CsA+ATG @ 10mg/kg for 5 days
The reconstitution of a functioning immune system after allogeneic stem cell transplantation takes months to years. Particularly memory B-lymphocytes reconstitute poorly with the current conditioning regimes. During the period of intense immune suppression the patients are extremely susceptible to bacterial, fungal and, most importantly, viral infections.The adoptive transfer of B-lymphocytes from the stem-cell donor might significantly enhance humoral immunity for the patient. Aim of the study is to evaluate a new cellular therapy with B-lymphocytes regarding safety. A booster vaccination after B-lymphocyte transfer will evaluate the functionality of the transferred B-lymphocytes in the patient.
Severe aplastic anemia (SAA)is characterized by the depletion of hematopoietic precursors associated with life-threatening complications. High-dose cyclophosphamide has been found to yield a complete response (CR) in adults and children with SAA.However, the optimal dosage of cyclophosphamide for patients in childhood remains unclear. So we explore the ideal dosage of cyclophosphamide for the treatment of children with SAA.
The study aims to evaluate the molecular mechanism underlying the erythroid response observed in some patients with myelodysplasia, myelofibrosis and aplastic anemia treated with Deferasirox or Deferoxamina.
Feasibility and toxicity of haploidentical transplantation of CD3/CD19 depleted stem cells in combination with a toxicity reduced conditioning regimen or with standard conditioning regimens according to underlying disease.