Blood glucose recovery following allogenetic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in patients with hematological diseases complicated with diabetes mellitus
Feng Kai
Xu Yi-wei
Ye Fu-guang
Jiang Min
Chen Hu
Shi Bing-yi
Abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have shown that the large-dose regular insulin therapy used to control blood glucose levels can cause 50%of patients suffering from vascular, optic nerve and kidney complications. Previous results from authors exhibit that when al ogeneic hematopoietic stem celltransplantation is applied for treatment of leukemia, diabetic symptoms in patients disappear. Dose it prompt that al ogeneic hematopoietic stem celltransplantation is an effective therapy for treatment of diabetes mel itus? OBJECTIVE:To explore the feasibility of hematopoietic stem celltransplantation for treatment of diabetes mel itus. METHODS:A retrospective analysis was done regarding the data of patients with hematological diseases complicated with diabetes mel itus who underwent al ogenetic hematopoietic stem celltransplantation. Four patients with acute lymphocyte leukemia, chronic myelogenous leukemia, aplastic anemia, and myolodysplastic syndromes, respectively, were complicated with diabetes mel itus. Conditioning regimen was cyclophosphamide+total body irradiation protocol. Cyclosporin A and short-term methotrexate were used for graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis. Blood glucose was control ed by oral hypoglycemic drugs or insulin injections before transplantation. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Al the four patients were successful y engrafted. Fasting glucose level of the four patients recovered at 4-6 months after hematopoietic stem celltransplantation (without hypoglycemic drugs). One patient died of leukemia relapse after 12 months of hematopoietic stem celltransplantation. The other three patients had disease-free survival until the time of fol ow-up.
Keywords：stem cellshematopoietic stem celltransplantationhematologic diseasesdiabetes mel itusblood glucose
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 6645-6648 )