Wataru Kitamura, Tomohiro Urata, Keiko Fujii, Takuya Fukumi, Kazuhiro Ikeuchi, Keisuke Seike, Hideaki Fujiwara, Noboru Asada, Daisuke Ennishi, Ken-Ichi Matsuoka, Fumio Otsuka, Yoshinobu Maeda, Nobuharu Fujii
BACKGROUND: In patients with relapsed or refractory B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia or B cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (r/r B-ALL/B-NHL) with low CD3+ cells in the peripheral blood (PB), sufficient CD3+ cell yield in a single day may not be obtained with normal-volume leukapheresis (NVL). Large-volume leukapheresis (LVL) refers to the processing of more than three times the total blood volume (TBV) in a single session for PB apheresis; however, the efficiency and safety of LVL for manufacturing of tisagenlecleucel (tisa-cel) remain unclear...
February 28, 2024: Transfusion