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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2019 Feb 14;25(7):e226–e246. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2019.02.012

Table 6.

MPS VI with HSCT

Author Details Results
Turbeville et al. 2011 [17]
  • Between 1982–2007

  • 45 patients

  • Most common regimen: cyclophosphamide and busulfan

  • Most common donor source bone marrow from unrelated donor

  • 85% survival rate six months after transplantation

  • 56% alive and engrafted rate six months after transplantation

  • 34 patients developed acute GvHD

Behfar et al. 2017 [62,165]
  • 3 severe MPS VI patients

  • Non-sibling donors

  • Two of the patients achieved 95% chimerism

  • Patient 1:

  • Received BMT

  • Donor cells from carrier mother

  • Increased enzyme levels

  • Improved joint mobility and ability to walk and climb

  • Improved pulmonary function

  • Decreased overall facial coarseness and finger stiffness

  • Corneal clouding remained unchanged

  • Patient 2:

  • Received a PBSCT

  • Grandmother donor

  • Developed acute GVHD grade II

  • Normal spleen size and liver size

  • Improved walk test

  • Mild tricuspid regurgitation and mitral regurgitation remained

  • Patient 3:

  • Unrelated cord blood donor

  • 5/6 HLA-matched

  • Experienced graft failure

  • Died of pneumonia 11 months after transplantation