• Claudia I Chapuy, Richard M Kaufman, Edwin P Alyea, and Jean M Connors.
• From the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center (C.I.C.), Blood Bank, Department of Pathology (R.M.K.), and the Division of Hematology (J.M.C.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (E.P.A.) - all in Boston; and the Department of Hematology and Oncology, University Medical Center, Göttingen, Germany (C.I.C.).
• N. Engl. J. Med. 2018 Nov 8; 379 (19): 1846-1850.

AbstractDaratumumab, a human IgG1κ monoclonal antibody targeting CD38, is used to treat multiple myeloma. We describe successful treatment with daratumumab in a case of treatment-refractory pure red-cell aplasia after ABO-mismatched allogeneic stem-cell transplantation. The patient was a 72-year-old man with the myelodysplastic syndrome who received a transplant from an HLA-matched, unrelated donor with a major ABO incompatibility (blood group A in the donor and blood group O in the recipient). The patient had persistent circulating anti-A antibodies and no red-cell recovery 200 days after transplantation. Standard treatments had no effect. Within 1 week after the initiation of treatment with daratumumab, he no longer required transfusions.

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