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Cannas G, Poutrel S, Heiblig M, Labussière H, Larcher MV, Thomas X, Hot A. Sickle cell disease and acute leukemia: one case report and an extensive review. Ann Hematol 2023:10.1007/s00277-023-05294-3. [PMID: 37269388 DOI: 10.1007/s00277-023-05294-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2023] [Accepted: 05/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Population-based studies and case reports suggest that there may be an increased risk of acute leukemia associated with sickle cell disease (SCD). Following the description of a new case report, an extensive review of the literature identified 51 previously described cases. Most cases study showed myelodysplastic features confirmed, when available, by genetic markers such as chromosome 5 and/or chromosome 7 abnormalities and TP53 gene mutations. The increased risk of leukemogenesis is certainly multifactorial and related to the pathophysiologic mechanisms of the clinical manifestations of SCD. Chronic hemolysis and secondary hemochromatosis may cause increased chronic inflammation, resulting in persistent marrow stress, which could potentially compromise the genomic stability of the hematopoietic stem cells generating genomic damage and somatic mutations over the course of SCD and its treatment, resulting in a clone that led to acute myeloid leukemia.
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- Giovanna Cannas
- Internal Medicine, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Edouard Herriot Hospital, 5, place d'Arsonval, Lyon cedex 03, 69437, Lyon, France.
- Constitutive reference center: Major sickle cell syndromes, thalassemias and other rare pathologies of red blood cell and erythropoiesis, Edouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon, France.
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- Internal Medicine, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Edouard Herriot Hospital, 5, place d'Arsonval, Lyon cedex 03, 69437, Lyon, France
- Constitutive reference center: Major sickle cell syndromes, thalassemias and other rare pathologies of red blood cell and erythropoiesis, Edouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon, France
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- Hematology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon-Sud Hospital, Pierre-Bénite, France
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- Hematology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon-Sud Hospital, Pierre-Bénite, France
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- Constitutive reference center: Major sickle cell syndromes, thalassemias and other rare pathologies of red blood cell and erythropoiesis, Edouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon, France
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- Internal Medicine, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Edouard Herriot Hospital, 5, place d'Arsonval, Lyon cedex 03, 69437, Lyon, France
- Constitutive reference center: Major sickle cell syndromes, thalassemias and other rare pathologies of red blood cell and erythropoiesis, Edouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon, France
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Thurn S, Kleinschmidt K, Kovacic I, Wendl C, Linker RA, Corbacioglu S, Schlachetzki F. Transcranial Doppler sonography and the effect of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation in sickle cell disease. Neurol Res Pract 2022; 4:12. [PMID: 35369878 PMCID: PMC8978343 DOI: 10.1186/s42466-022-00175-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2021] [Accepted: 02/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is one of the most prevalent monogenetic diseases worldwide and one of the most serious complications is stroke. Transcranial Doppler (TCD) demonstrated to be highly predictive for an imminent stroke by measuring blood flow velocities in the basal cerebral arteries. Currently, the only curative therapy for SCD is hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). The aim of this study is to verify the correlation between blood flow velocities and stroke including the effect of HSCT.
Methods In our retrospective single-center study a total of 26 sickle cell patients (HbSS, HbSß+-thalassemia, HbSSα-thalassemia minima, HbSSα-thalassemia minor and HbSC) were analyzed between 2010 and 2016. The highest time averaged maximum mean blood flow velocity (TAMMV) measured was documented and evaluated with respect to SCD genotype and effect of HSCT. Acute and symptomatic as well as silent strokes were recorded as separate parameters.
Results In our study, ten patients had normal blood flow velocities before HSCT (six HbSS and four HbSß+-thalassemia patients) and 13 patients presented with abnormal TCD (eight HbSS, three HbSSα-thalassemia minima, one HbSSα-thalassemia minor and one HbSC). Thirteen of 26 study participants (ten HbSS and three HbSß+-thalassemia patients) received HSCT. In two patients, TAMMV in basal cerebral arteries remained “normal”, in one they remained conditional and in one TAMMV was reduced to normal. Four of 26 study participants (15.4%), including all patients with HbSS genotype, presented with a stroke, but none had “abnormal” TAMMV with TCD performed after the onset of stroke in each case. At the time we performed the TCD, the patients had already suffered the stroke. Conclusion In our study, none of the patients with stroke displayed abnormal blood flow velocities in TCD. Yet, HSCT at this stage of the disease still had a positive effect on TAMMV. Further studies are needed whether this effect converts into reduced stroke risk at all or only selected SCD patients undergoing HSCT.
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- Sylvia Thurn
- Institute of Diagnostic Radiology, University Medical Center Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Center Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University of Regensburg, Bezirksklinikum Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.,Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Center for Neuroradiology, Bezirksklinikum Regensburg and University Medical Center Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University of Regensburg, Bezirksklinikum Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.,Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Center Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University of Regensburg, Bezirksklinikum Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany. .,Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
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Maia Filho PA, Pereira JF, Almeida Filho TPD, Cavalcanti BC, Sousa JCD, Lemes RPG. Is chronic use of hydroxyurea safe for patients with sickle cell anemia? An account of genotoxicity and mutagenicity. ENVIRONMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MUTAGENESIS 2019; 60:302-304. [PMID: 30525240 DOI: 10.1002/em.22260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2018] [Revised: 09/26/2018] [Accepted: 10/11/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is a hereditary hematological disease that is characterized by a point mutation in the beta globin S gene and has no specific treatment; hydroxyurea (HU) is the only therapeutic agent used in clinical practice. In the present study, we evaluated the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) damage index (DI) and chromosomal damage in leukocytes of adult patients with SCA with and without HU. The DI was assessed by the comet assay and chromosomal damage by the leukocyte micronucleus test of adult patients treated with HU (SCA-HU) and without the use of HU (SCA-NoHU). This is a cross-sectional study with 77 patients with SCA who attended a referral hospital in Fortaleza, Brazil. The control group (CG) consisted of 58 reportedly healthy individuals. The comparisons of means were performed by analysis of variance and Tukey's post-test. Values of P < 0.05 were considered statistically significant. SCA-NoHU patients had statistically higher DI values and a statistically significantly higher frequency of micronuclei compared to the CG. In addition, HU treatment accentuated DNA lesions by significantly increasing both parameters in treated patients (SCA-HU). HU potentiates DNA damage and the occurrence of chromosomal damage, which may promote genomic instability, mutation occurrence, and carcinogenesis. Studies are needed to evaluate the involved pathways, repair mechanisms, and the clinical impact that such damage can cause. Environ. Mol. Mutagen. 60:302-304, 2019. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Nucleus of Research and Development of Medicines, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
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Atypical β-S haplotypes: classification and genetic modulation in patients with sickle cell anemia. J Hum Genet 2019; 64:239-248. [DOI: 10.1038/s10038-018-0554-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2017] [Revised: 12/05/2018] [Accepted: 12/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Inheritance of the Bantu/Benin haplotype causes less severe hemolytic and oxidative stress in sickle cell anemia patients treated with hydroxycarbamide. J Hum Genet 2016; 61:605-11. [PMID: 26961071 DOI: 10.1038/jhg.2016.16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2015] [Revised: 02/01/2016] [Accepted: 02/03/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Beta S-globin gene cluster haplotypes (β(S)-haplotypes) can modulate the response to hydroxycarbamide (HC) treatment in sickle cell anemia (SCA) patients. In Brazil, the most common haplotypes are Bantu and Benin, and both confer a poor prognosis for patients when untreated with HC. We evaluated oxidative and hemolytic biomarkers in 48 SCA patients undergoing HC treatment separated in three subgroups: Bantu/Bantu, Bantu/Benin and Benin/Benin haplotype. On the basis of reduced haptoglobin (HP) levels, patients with Bantu/Bantu haplotypes had 3.0% higher hemolysis degree when compared with those with Bantu/Benin haplotypes (P=0.01). The Benin/Benin patients had 53.6% greater lipid peroxidation index than the Bantu/Bantu patients (P=0.01) because of evaluated thiobarbituric acid reactive species levels. The Bantu/Benin subgroup had intermediate levels of hemolytic and oxidative stress markers compared with the homozygous subgroups. Through strict inclusion criteria adopted, as well as consolidated and well-described hemolytic and the oxidative parameters evaluated, we suggest a haplotype-interaction response to HC treatment mediated by a 'balance' between the genetic factors of each haplotype studied.
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Patel S, Purohit P, Mashon RS, Dehury S, Meher S, Sahoo S, Dash SS, Das K, Das P, Patel DK. The effect of hydroxyurea on compound heterozygotes for sickle cell-hemoglobin D-Punjab--a single centre experience in eastern India. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2014; 61:1341-6. [PMID: 24616059 DOI: 10.1002/pbc.25004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2013] [Accepted: 01/29/2014] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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BACKGROUND Although hydroxyurea is the only effective agent for the treatment of sickle cell disease, published experience with this drug is limited to treatment of homozygous sickle cell anemia and HbS/β thalassemia. The role of hydroxyurea in the treatment of patients with HbSD-Punjab, a rare hemoglobinopathy with phenotypic expression similar to that of sickle cell anemia is unknown. PROCEDURE Over a period of 10 years, we followed 42 patients with HbSD-Punjab, of which 20 presented with severe clinical manifestations (≥3 episodes of VOC and/or ≥2 units of blood transfusion in the previous 12 months). These 20 patients were enrolled for treatment with hydroxyurea at a dose of 10 mg/kg/day and followed prospectively for a period of 24 months. RESULTS The frequency of VOC decreased significantly and none of them required blood transfusion while receiving hydroxyurea. The HbF, total hemoglobin, MCV, MCH, and MCHC levels increased significantly, whereas HbS, WBC, platelet count, total serum bilirubin, and LDH levels decreased significantly in all the patients. No short-term drug toxicity was observed. CONCLUSION This study describes the use of hydroxyurea therapy in patients with HbSD-Punjab. Low dose hydroxyurea (10 mg/kg/day) was found to be effective in reducing the clinical severity in patients with HbSD-Punjab without any short-term toxicity. In view of easy affordability amongst poor patients, widespread acceptability by patients and doctors, the need of infrequent monitoring and its potential effectiveness, low dose hydroxyurea is suitable for treatment of patients with HbSD-Punjab.
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- Siris Patel
- Department Medicine, Veer Surendra Sai Medical College, Burla, Sambalpur, Odisha, India
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Pedrosa AM, Barbosa MC, Santos TND, Leal LKAM, Lopes ADA, Elias DBD, Sasahara GL, Cavalcanti BC, Gonçalves RP. Cytotoxicity and DNA damage in the neutrophils of patients with sickle cell anaemia treated with hydroxyurea. BRAZ J PHARM SCI 2014. [DOI: 10.1590/s1984-82502014000200020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Hydroxyurea (HU) is the most important advance in the treatment of sickle cell anaemia (SCA) for preventing complications and improving quality of life for patients. However, some aspects of treatment with HU remain unclear, including their effect on and potential toxicity to other blood cells such as neutrophils. This study used the measurement of Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH) and Methyl ThiazolTetrazolium (MTT) and the comet assay to investigate the cytotoxicity and damage index (DI) of the DNA in the neutrophils of patients with SCA using HU.In the LDH and MTT assays, a cytoprotective effect was observed in the group of patients treated, as well as an absence of toxicity. When compared to patients without the treatment, the SS group (n=20, 13 women and 07 men, aged 18-69 years), and the group of healthy individuals (AA) used as a control group (n=52, 28 women and 24 men, aged 19-60 years), The SSHU group (n=21, 11 women and 10 men, aged 19-63 years) showed a significant reduction (p<0.001) in LDH activity and an increase in the percentage of viable cells by the MTT (p<0.001). However, the SSHU group presented significantly higher DI values (49.57±6.0 U/A) when compared to the AA group (7.43 ± 0,94U/A) and the SS group (22.73 ±5.58 U/A) (p<0.0001), especially when treated for longer periods (>20 months), demonstrating that despite the cytoprotective effects in terms of cell viability, the use of HU can induce DNA damage in neutrophils.
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Chronic inflammatory state in sickle cell anemia patients is associated with HBB*S haplotype. Cytokine 2014; 65:217-21. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cyto.2013.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2013] [Revised: 09/15/2013] [Accepted: 10/28/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Kassim AA, DeBaun MR. The case for and against initiating either hydroxyurea therapy, blood transfusion therapy or hematopoietic stem cell transplant in asymptomatic children with sickle cell disease. Expert Opin Pharmacother 2014; 15:325-36. [DOI: 10.1517/14656566.2014.868435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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