Condition
Severe or Systemic autoimmune disease, including:
Inflammatory bowel disease
Multiple sclerosis (MS)
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
Inflammatory arthritis (including rheumatoid arthritis)
Scleroderma/CREST
Sarcoidosis
Guillain-Barre syndrome
Wegener granulomatosis
Goodpasture syndrome
Individual at risk
Donor / recipient
Guidance at RECRUITMENT for adult volunteer donor and maternal donor (cord blood donation)
ACCEPT
Guidance at CT/WORK-UP
Accept donors for BM only if in stable remission with complete recovery who have not required disease modifying therapy for more than one year ; Defer in case of (a history of) severe or recurrent disease. Inform transplant centre of diagnosis.
Justification for guidance
- Recipient safety: Inflammatory bowel disease is an autoimmune disease could be transferable by allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Because the disease is not life threatening, the recipient and the transplant physician should weigh the risk/benefits of using the specific donor on an individual basis.
- Donor safety: GCSF could exacerbate autoimmunity in the donor.
References
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Lampeter EF, McCann SR, Kolb H. Transfer of diabetes type 1 by bone-marrow transplantation. Lancet 1998; 351(9102): 568-9.
Marmont AM. Autoimmunity and allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant 1992; 9(1): 1-3.
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