2020 EBMT Meeting Reporter

Haploidentical donor transplantation led to stronger anti-leukemia activity compared with matched sibling donor transplantation in transplant-eligible patients with minimal residual disease–positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Basiliximab proved to be an effective second-line treatment option for pediatric patients with steroid-refractory acute graft-versus-host disease that developed following haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Ruxolitinib continued to elicit a significantly higher overall response rate compared with best available therapy at day 28 in patients with steroid-refractory acute graft-versus-host disease.

Blinatumomab monotherapy as consolidation therapy prior to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant resulted a significant improvement in event-free survival and a lower risk of recurrence in children with high-risk B-cell precursor–acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

The orally available ROCK2 selective inhibitor belumosudil continues to elicit clinically meaningful overall response rates in patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) who have received ≥2 prior lines of systemic therapy

The overall response rates with subcutaneous daratumumab proved to be similar to that of the intravenous formulation of the drug irrespective of body weight.

Biomarkers predictive of risk in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation–associated thrombotic microangiopathy have undergone a recent evolution, with several new markers under exploration and many efforts focused on making current markers more precise and accurate to strengthen diagnostic criteria.

Rafael F. Duarte, MD, PhD, FRCP, presents 2 real-world clinical cases in which the investigational monoclonal antibody narsoplimab demonstrated clinical benefit in patients with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation-associated thrombotic microangiopathy.

Eleni Gavriilaki, MD, PhD, discusses the rationale for the lectin pathway as a therapeutic target in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation–associated thrombotic microangiopathy.