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ABO-mismatched marrow processing for transplantation: Comparative results of 80 procedures performed with Cobe
Gala Aglaia Méndez1, José Luis Arroyo1, Cristina Amunárriz1
1Blood and Tissues Bank of Cantabria, Hospital de la Santa Cruz, Bº Las Mazas, 17, 39120 Liencres, Cantabria, Spain.
Background:
removal of incompatible red blood cells (RBCs) or plasma is usually required to avoid hemolysis during infusion of ABO incompatible bone marrow (BM) allogeneic transplants. This process often involves separation of buffy coat (BC) by centrifugation in automated devices. We have evaluated the Spectra Optia™ (Optia) apheresis system to determine its effectiveness in BC concentration, volume reduction and RBCs depletion of ABO-incompatible BM compared with our previous method using Cobe Spectra™ (Cobe).
Materials And Methods:
28 processes were performed with Optia and 52 with Cobe. We compared volume reduction, RBCs depletion, and recovery of total nucleated cells (TNCs), mononuclear cells (MNCs), CD34+ and CD3+ cells in the final product. Hematopoietic engraftment was ascertained. We used Saphiro-Wilks and Kolmorgorov- Smirnov tests to test normality and Mann-Whitney's U test to compare means between both groups.
Results:
We found statistically significant differences favoring Optia versus Cobe in TNCs recovery (62% vs. 37%), CD34+ cell recovery (98 vs 84%), volume reduction (91 vs 84%), and RBCs depletion (99 vs. 97%), but not in processing time or time to engraftment.
Conclusion:
Optia achieves high RBCs and volume depletion of BM, while providing excellent CD34+ recovery in clinical routine. Some parameters compare favorably with Cobe Spectra.
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