Chidamide Plus PTCy/Cyclosporine to Prevent GVHD After Myeloablative Conditioning, Matched PBSCT

Eligible patients were aged 16 to 65 years, diagnosed with hematologic malignancy, and had a Karnofsky performance score of ≥70% and were candidates for myeloablative HCT. A 8/8 HLA allelic match between the donor and the recipient at HLA-A, HLA-B, HLA-C, and HLA-DRB1 by high-resolution typing was required. The graft source was PBSC. Patients received a myeloablative conditioning regimen consisting of oral chidamide given twice weekly at a dose of 20 mg from day -7 to 2 weeks post transplantation, intravenous busulfan 3.2 mg/kg from day -6 to -3, intravenous fludarabine 30 mg/m2 and cytarabine 1g/m2 respectively from day -6 to -2. PBSCs were infused on day 0. GVHD prophylaxis was post-transplantation cyclophosphamide (50 mg/kg on day +3, +4) and cyclosporine (started from day +5). In the absence of GVHD, cyclosporine tapering started on day +100 and discontinued on day +180. Minimal residual disease (MRD) was determined by multi-parameter flow cytometry.