How do you manage a patient with a history of high-risk leukemia who has increasing loss of donor chimerism in the post-transplant setting in the absence of disease relapse?
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Pediatric Hematology/Oncology · University of Florida
Decline in donor chimerism is not very common in pediatric patients who underwent myeloablative conditioning regimen for hematologic malignancy, and if chimerism is initially 100% and subsequently falls, it usually represents a relapse of underlying leukemia, or a new malignancy. I always obtain lin...