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- Title
A single weekly dose of imatinib is sufficient to induce and maintain remission of chronic eosinophilic leukaemia in FIP1L1-PDGFRA-expressing patients.
- Authors
Helbig, Grzegorz; Stella-Hołowiecka, Beata; Majewski, Mirosław; Całbecka, Małgorzata; Gajkowska, Jolanta; Klimkiewicz, Ryszard; Moskwa, Andrzej; Grzegorczyk, Janina; Lewandowska, Monika; Hołowiecki, Jerzy
- Abstract
Hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) is defined as chronic, unexplained hypereosinophilia with organ involvement. A subset of HES patients presents an interstitial deletion in chromosome 4q12, which leads to the expression of an imatinib-responsive fusion gene, FIP1L1-PDGFRA. These patients are diagnosed as chronic eosinophilic leukaemia (CEL). We treated seven CEL and HES patients, six of which expressed FIP1L1-PDGFRA, with imatinib using initial daily doses ranging from 100 to 400 mg. In a remission maintenance phase, the patients were treated with imatinib once weekly. All imatinib-treated patients achieved a complete haematological remission (CHR), and five of the six patients with FIP1L1-PDGFRA expression exhibited molecular remission. The decreased imatinib doses were as follows: 200 mg/week in three patients, 100 mg/week in two patients and 100 mg/d in the remaining two patients. For remission maintenance, imatinib doses were set at 100 mg/week in five patients and 200 mg/week in two patients. At a median follow-up of 30 months all patients remained in CHR and FIP1L1-PDGFRA expression was undetectable in five of the six FIP1L1-PDGFRA-expressing patients. These data suggest that a single weekly dose of imatinib is sufficient to maintain remission in FIP1L1-PDGFRA- positive CEL patients.
- Subjects
IMATINIB; ANTINEOPLASTIC agents; LEUKEMIA; EOSINOPHIL disorders; GRANULOCYTES; LEUCOCYTE disorders
- Publication
British Journal of Haematology, 2008, Vol 141, Issue 2, p200
- ISSN
0007-1048
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2141.2008.07033.x