Table 1.
Sex Age |
Male Patient. 74 Years Patient No. 2 |
Male Patient. 54 Years Patient No. 3 |
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Diagnosis | AML without maturation (NOS, WHO 2016). Intermediate risk group (ELN2017). Normal karyotype. Primary refractory disease. | AML with maturation (NOS, WHO 2016). Add (21) (q22). Intermediate risk group (ELN2017). Primary refractory disease. |
Clinical data | A patient with a progression disease during the treatment by azacitidine. Increasing blast cells in blood and marrow by more than 50% from baseline after 2 cycles of azacytidine therapy. | A patient with a progression disease during the treatment by azacitidine. Increasing blast cells in blood and marrow by more than 50% from baseline after 2 cycles of azacytidine therapy. |
Patient status before GO therapy initiation | The WHO performance status of 3. Marrow blast cells 88.6%, peripheral blood blast cells 60%, pancytopenia grade 3–4. CRP was slightly increased to 20 mg/L. Acute kidney failure grade 2 with no prior history of chronic kidney disease dehydration, use of nephrotoxic agents or tumor lysis syndrome signs. Creatinine increasing up to 2.8xULN and GFR decline to 15 mL/min. | The WHO performance status of 3. Marrow blasts cells 68%. High fever and elevated CRP level up to 332 mg/L with no response to escalated antibiotics/antimycotics combination. The patient had respiratory failure grade 2 with massive bilateral polysegmental lung infiltrates according to a chest CT scan. |
Regimen of therapy with GO | «GO » 1 cycle «GO+Aza» 1 cycle |
«GO » 1 cycle |
Response to therapy | The WHO performance status improved to grade 2. | The WHO performance status improved to grade 2. Apyrexia was achieved on day 3 of the GO therapy. |
Kidney function began to improve immediately after GO infusion. Creatinine started to decrease on day 1 of the therapy and returned to normal value on day 6 (GFR elevated up to 72 mL/min on day 6). Thus, recovery after acute kidney injury occurred on day 6. There was blast clearance in peripheral blood on day 5 after GO therapy. | CRP level started to drop on day 1 of the therapy (CRP on day 2—250 mg/L, on day 7—60 mg/L) | |
On day 5 after GO infusion «GO+Aza» therapy was initiated. No laboratory signs of kidney injury were noticed during whole period of therapy in the «GO+Aza» regimen. | A chest CT scan on day 6 of the GO therapy showed a significant regression of pulmonary infiltrates in the size. | |
Day 14 marrow blast cells 16.1%. | Day 7 marrow blast cells 46%. Thus, blast cell reduction was achieved on day 7 after GO infusion. | |
Peripheral blood cell recovery was achieved on day 40 of the «GO+Aza» therapy. On day 40 the marrow blast cell was 1%. Thus, complete remission with peripheral blood cell recovery was achieved. | Patient became eligible for chemo intensification. On day 12 of the therapy, “7+3” was initiated. |