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  • Title: [Blast crisis in chronic myeloid leukemia. Results with vindesine and prednisolone].
    Author: Nitsche D, Tschurtschenthaler G, Stöger M, Michlmayr G.
    Journal: Dtsch Med Wochenschr; 1985 Dec 13; 110(50):1936-9. PubMed ID: 3865760.
    Abstract:
    Nine patients with blast crises of chronic myeloid leukaemia were treated with a combination of vindesine and prednisolone. Vindesine, 2 mg/m2, was administered intravenously on two successive days each week and prednisolone, 60 mg/m2, orally once daily. Blast crises were divided into myeloblastic and lymphoblastic ones using cytochemical parameters as well as detection of terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase. Complete remission was achieved in four patients, partial remission in one patient; in four patients treatment was unsuccessful. According to cytochemical findings, a therapeutic success was obtained in three of four patients with lymphoblastic and two of four patients with myeloblastic crises whereas no response to the treatment was seen in one patient with an undifferentiated type. Side effects of the therapy were frequent, but of only low degree and never led to interruption of treatment. On the basis of these results and from experience reported in the literature, the combination of vindesine and prednisolone can be recommended as the therapy of choice in blast crises of chronic myeloid leukaemia.
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