S-OA-H Oral Abstracts - Session H - Pediatric Disorders & GVH/GVL

Track: BMT Tandem "Scientific" Meeting
Friday, February 15, 2013: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Ballroom I-J (Salt Palace Convention Center)
Chairs:
Nirali Shah, MD and Steve Grupp, MD, PhD
Summary:

Abstracts: #2460, 2325, 2482, 2557, 2257, 2112

100
Reduced Toxicity Conditioning with Busulfan, Fludarabine, Alemtuzumab and Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation From HLA-Matched Sibling Donors in Children with High Risk Sickle Cell Disease Results in Long Term Donor Chimerism and Low Incidence of Agvhd
Kavita Radhakrishnan, Yale Medical school; Mark Geyer, AB, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Erin Morris, RN, BSN, New York Medical College; Lee Ann Baxter-Lowe, PhD, UCSF; Mitchell S. Cairo, MD, New York Medical College

101
Post-Transplant Cyclophosphamide Is Feasible and Reduces Acute GvHD in Pediatric UCB Transplantation
Oscar Ramirez, MD MPhil, Centro Médico Imbanaco; Viviana Lotero, MD, Fundación Valle del Lili; Maria Ximena Castro, MD, Oncólogos Asociados de Imbanaco; Carlos Andres Portilla, MD, Centro Médico Imbanaco; Margarita Quintero, MD MSc, Centro Médico Imbanaco

102
Haploidentical BMT Using Fully Myeloablative Conditioning, T Cell Replete Grafts, and Post-Transplant Cyclophosphamide (PT/Cy) Has Limited Toxicity and Promising Efficacy in Pediatric Patients with High Risk Hematologic Malignanices
Heather Jill Symons, MD, MHS, Johns Hopkins Hospital; Allen Chen, MD, PhD, MHS, Johns Hopkins Hospital; Christopher Gamper, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins Hospital; David Loeb, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins Hospital; Richard J. Jones, MD, The Johns Hopkins University; Ephraim Fuchs, MD, MBA, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

55
Rituximab Provides Steroid-Sparing Therapy in New-Onset Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease
Bita Sahaf, PhD, Stanford School of Medicine; Sally Arai, MD, Stanford University; Joanne Otani, RN, MSN, PHN, Stanford University; Kelsi Schoenrock, Stanford School of Medicine; Aaron Logan, MD, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine; David B. Miklos, MD, PhD, Stanford University Medical Center

56
Regulation of Apoptotic Pathways in Human Regulatory T Cells in Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease (cGVHD) After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT)
Kazuyuki Murase, MD, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Yutaka Kawano, MD, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Jeremy Ryan, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Ken-ichi Matsuoka, MD, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Gregory Bascug, BS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Sean M McDonough, MS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Robert Smith, BS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Suzan Lazo-Kallanian, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; John Daley, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; John Koreth, MBBS, DPhil, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Robert J. Soiffer, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Anthony Letai, MD, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Jerome Ritz, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

57
Reactivation of Murine Cytomegalovirus Is Associated with Increased Gvhd Severity in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients
Senthilnathan Palaniyandi, Ph.D, University of Utah; Sabarinath Venniyil Radhakrishnan, MD, LSUHSC-Shreveport; Fridrik J Karlsson, Ph.D, LSUHSC-Shreveport; Elisabeth Huber, MD, University of Regensburg Medical School; Karen Y Stokes, Ph.D, LSUHSC-Shreveport; Nicolai Kittan, MD, LSUHSC-Shreveport; Gerhard C Hildebrandt, MD, LSUHSC-Shreveport