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Case Reports
. 2003 Apr;18(4):624-36.
doi: 10.1359/jbmr.2003.18.4.624.

Marrow cell transplantation for infantile hypophosphatasia

Michael P Whyte  1 , Joanne Kurtzberg, William H McAlister, Steven Mumm, Michelle N Podgornik, Stephen P Coburn, Lawrence M Ryan, Cindy R Miller, Gary S Gottesman, Alan K Smith, Judy Douville, Barbara Waters-Pick, R Douglas Armstrong, Paul L Martin
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Marrow cell transplantation for infantile hypophosphatasia

Michael P Whyte et al. J Bone Miner Res. 2003 Apr.
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Abstract

An 8-month-old girl who seemed certain to die from the infantile form of hypophosphatasia, an inborn error of metabolism characterized by deficient activity of the tissue-nonspecific isoenzyme of alkaline phosphatase (TNSALP), underwent the first trial of bone marrow cell transplantation for this heritable type of rickets. After cytoreduction, she was given T-cell-depleted, haplo-identical marrow from her healthy sister. Chimerism in peripheral blood and bone marrow became 100% donor. Three months later, she was clinically improved, with considerable healing of rickets and generalized skeletal remineralization. However, 6 months post-transplantation, worsening skeletal disease recurred, with partial return of host hematopoiesis. At the age of 21 months, without additional chemotherapy or immunosuppressive treatment, she received a boost of donor marrow cells expanded ex vivo to enrich for stromal cells. Significant, prolonged clinical and radiographic improvement followed soon after. Nevertheless, biochemical features of hypophosphatasia have remained unchanged to date. Skeletal biopsy specimens were not performed. Now, at 6 years of age, she is intelligent and ambulatory but remains small. Among several hypotheses for our patient's survival and progress, the most plausible seems to be the transient and long-term engraftment of sufficient numbers of donor marrow mesenchymal cells, forming functional osteoblasts and perhaps chondrocytes, to ameliorate her skeletal disease.

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