New transplant recipe may tame severe anemia
NCT ID NCT06837987
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 26, 2026
Summary
This study reviews a modified transplant conditioning regimen for severe aplastic anemia in 72 patients across two hospitals. The approach uses a combination of fludarabine, melphalan, and cyclophosphamide to prepare the body for a stem cell transplant. Researchers looked at how well the transplant took and how many patients developed graft-versus-host disease, a common complication.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- modified transplantation conditioning (fludarabine, melphalan, cyclophosphamide)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this modified transplant approach could offer a safer and more effective way to treat severe aplastic anemia, reducing complications like graft failure and graft-versus-host disease.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, retrospective study with no control group, so results may not apply to all patients. Transplant procedures carry risks such as infection, organ damage, and graft failure.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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72 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Jun 2020
- Finished
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Aug 2025
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
Patients who were diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia by NCCN guidelines, and has received HSCT with this transplantation preconditioning and aGVHD prophylaxis regimen;
- Ages
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3 to 65 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Patients who were diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia by NCCN guidelines, and has received HSCT with this transplantation preconditioning and aGVHD prophylaxis regimen; 2. Age 3-65 years old; 3. Weight 10Kg-100Kg; 4. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) score ≤3; 5. No major organ injury (ECG ejection fraction \>45%; bilirubin \< 2 times the upper limit of normal value; AST and ALT \< 3 times the upper limit of normal value; serum creatinine \< 2 times the upper limit of normal value); 6. No severe infection; 7. Subjects voluntarily participated in this clinical trial and signed the informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patients with other hematologic diseases who are not eligible for transplantation or who do not wish to receive transplantation; 2. Patients with an expected survival of less than 1 month; 3. Patients with previous autologous or allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; 4. pregnant patients; 5. Patients with severe mental or neurological disorders that would affect the ability to provide informed consent and/or to report or observe adverse events; 6. Other conditions that the investigator determines to be inappropriate for enrollment.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Department of Hematology,920th Hospital of Joint Logistics Support Force
Kunming, Yunnan, 650000, China
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