Optimizing Haploidentical Aplastic Anemia Transplantation (BMT CTN 1502)

Acquired SAA is a rare bone marrow failure disorder with an estimated annual incidence of 2 cases per million and with over 600 new cases in the United States each year. A major challenge in treating acquired SAA is the management of patients who are refractory to immunosuppressant therapy (IST) or have relapsed after IST. HSCT is the only curative option for these patients but many are ineligible because they lack a suitable donor. The Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network (BMT CTN) seeks to increase options for these patients by using novel therapeutic strategies of GVHD prophylaxis with PTCy to expand the donor pool to include haploidentical donors. The goal of this protocol is to test whether optimized approaches using haploidentical donors will achieve acceptable outcomes in SAA patients.