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- Title
Classic Hodgkin Lymphoproliferative Diseases Clonally Unrelated to B-Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Successfully Treated with Bendamustine Plus Rituximab.
- Authors
Rai, Shinya; Tanaka, Hirokazu; Fujimoto, Ko; Kumode, Takahiro; Inoue, Hiroaki; Taniguchi, Yasuhiro; Morita, Yasuyoshi; Espinoza, J. Luis; Tatsumi, Yoichi; Ashida, Takashi; Matsuoka, Ryota; Kikuti, Yukie Yara; Nakamura, Naoya; Matsumura, Itaru
- Abstract
A 62-year-old male was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and treated with a fludarabine-containing regimen which maintained the disease in a partial response. Nine years after diagnosis, a rapidly growing systemic lymphadenopathy was observed, and a biopsy specimen revealed the presence of typical Hodgkin/Reed-Sternberg (HRS) cells, surrounded by T-lymphocytes and CLL cells. Sequencing analysis of the germline complementary determining region 3 (CDR3) region of the immunoglobulin heavy chain (IGH) gene showed that the Hodgkin/Reed-Sternberg cells were clonally unrelated to the preexisting CLL cells and the HRS cells were composed of five different clones, leading to the molecular diagnosis of de novo lymphocyte-rich classic Hodgkin lymphoproliferative diseases (LPDs) with small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL). As the initial treatment was neither effective for classic Hodgkin LPDs nor for SLL, Bendamustine, Rituximab (BR) was started and complete remission was achieved, which has continued for more than one year so far. BR may be a good therapeutic option for both entities without causing hematological toxicity.
- Subjects
ANTINEOPLASTIC agents; CHRONIC lymphocytic leukemia diagnosis; LYMPHATIC disease diagnosis; FLUDARABINE; RITUXIMAB; BIOPSY; COMBINATION drug therapy; CHRONIC lymphocytic leukemia; GENETIC techniques; HODGKIN'S disease; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MACROPHAGES; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE disorders; T cells; TREATMENT effectiveness; DISEASE remission; SEQUENCE analysis; DIAGNOSIS; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Cancers, 2018, Vol 10, Issue 9, p304
- ISSN
2072-6694
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/cancers10090304