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Effect of rabbit ATG PK on outcomes after TCR-αβ/CD19-depleted pediatric haploidentical HCT for hematologic malignancy.

Abstract

We hypothesized that the inferior disease-free survival (DFS) seen in older patients who underwent αβ-T-cell/CD19-depleted (AB-TCD) haploidentical hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) for hematologic malignancies is caused by excessive exposure to rabbit antithymocyte globulin (rATG; Thymoglobulin). Between 2015 and 2023, 163 patients with a median age of 13 years (range, 0.4-27.4) underwent AB-TCD haploidentical HCT for the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (n = 98), acute myeloid leukemia/myelodysplastic syndrome (n = 49), or other malignancies (n = 16) at 9 centers in 2 prospective trials. Exposures to rATG before and after HCT were predicted using a validated pharmacokinetic model. Receiver operating characteristic curves were used to identify the optimal target windows for rATG exposure in terms of outcomes. We identified 4 quadrants of rATG exposure, namely quadrant 1 (n = 52) with a high pre-HCT area under curve (AUC; ≥50 arbitrary units [AU] per day per milliliter) and a low post-HCT AUC (<12 AU per day per liter); quadrant 2 (n = 47) with a low pre- and post-HCT AUC; quadrant 3 (n = 13) with a low pre-HCT and a high post-HCT AUC; and quadrant 4 (n = 51) with a high pre- and post-HCT AUC. Quadrant 1 had a 3-year DFS of 86.5%, quadrant 2 had a DFS of 64.6%, quadrant 3 had a DFS of 32.9%, and for quadrant 4 it was 48.2%. An adjusted regression analysis demonstrated additional factors that were associated with an increased hazard for worse DFS, namely minimal residual disease (MRD) positivity and cytomegalovirus (CMV) R+/D- serostatus. Nonoptimal rATG exposure exhibited the strongest effect in unadjusted and adjusted (MRD status or CMV serostatus) analyses. High exposure to rATG after HCT was associated with inferior DFS following AB-TCD haploidentical HCT for pediatric patients with hematologic malignancies. Model-based dosing of rATG to achieve optimal exposure may improve DFS. These trials were registered at www.ClinicalTrials.gov as #NCT02646839 and #NCT04337515.

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