Severe Aplastic Anemia (SAA)

Background: Severe aplastic anemia (SAA), and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), and paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) cause serious blood problems. Stem cell transplants using bone marrow or blood plus chemotherapy can help. Researchers want to see if using peripheral blood stem cells (PBSCs) rather than bone marrow cells works too. PBSCs are easier to collect and have more cells that help transplants. Objectives: To see how safely and effectively SAA, MDS and PNH are treated using peripheral blood hematopoietic stem cells from a family member plus chemotherapy. Eligibility: Recipients ages 4-60 with SAA, MDS or PNH and their relative donors ages 4-75 Design: Recipients will have: * Blood, urine, heart, and lung tests * Scans * Bone marrow sample Recipients will need a caregiver for several months. They may make fertility plans and a power of attorney. Donors will have blood and tissue tests, then injections to boost stem cells for 5-7 days. Donors will have blood collected from a tube in an arm or leg vein. A machine will separate stem cells and maybe white blood cells. The rest of the blood will be returned into the other arm or leg. In the hospital for about 1 month, recipients will have: * Central line inserted in the neck or chest * Medicines for side effects * Chemotherapy over 8 days and radiation 1 time * Stem cell transplant over 4 hours Up to 6 months after transplant, recipients will stay near NIH for weekly physical exams and blood tests. At day 180, recipients will go home. They will have tests at their doctor s office and NIH several times over 5 years.

Severe aplastic anemia is a life-threatening bone marrow failure disorder. Haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation has become an important curative treatment option for patients who do not have an HLA-matched sibling donor. Traditionally, haploidentical transplantation for severe aplastic anemia uses a graft composed of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor-primed bone marrow plus peripheral blood stem cells. However, bone marrow collection is invasive and may increase donor burden. Peripheral blood stem cell collection is simpler and less invasive, but it remains unclear whether using peripheral blood stem cells alone provides similar clinical outcomes without increasing the risk of graft-versus-host disease. This multicenter, randomized, open-label, non-inferiority trial will compare granulocyte colony-stimulating factor-primed peripheral blood stem cells alone with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor-primed bone marrow plus peripheral blood stem cells as graft sources for haploidentical transplantation in patients with severe or very severe aplastic anemia. Participants will be randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to either graft source group. The primary outcome is the cumulative incidence of grade II-IV acute graft-versus-host disease within 100 days after transplantation. Secondary outcomes include engraftment, chronic graft-versus-host disease, infections, immune reconstitution, survival, and donor safety.

This study aimed to explore the efficacy and safety of cyclosporine (CsA) +eltrombopag (EPAG)/hetrombopag (HPAG)+romiplostim N01 in the treatment of newly-diagnosed transfusion-dependent aplastic anemia (TD-NSAA) and severe aplastic anemia (SAA)