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  • Title: Effect of marrow processing on hematopoietic cell recovery in bone marrow harvests: focus on filtration.
    Author: Feruglio C, Savignano C, Silvestri F, Rinaldi C, Lavaroni S, Venturelli F, Degrassi A, Fanin R, Sala PG, Biffoni F.
    Journal: Bone Marrow Transplant; 1995 Dec; 16(6):835-8. PubMed ID: 8750278.
    Abstract:
    Bone marrow processing requires a first step of filtration to remove small clots, bone fragments, fat cells and fibrin followed by centrifugation to separate mononuclear cells (MNC). These procedures cause a significant loss of cells potentially including hematopoietic stem cells (HSC). We therefore analyzed the cell recovery and phenotype of various fractions (whole marrow; filtered marrow; MNC collected after centrifugation; bone marrow fragments trapped by filtration) of bone marrow harvests (BMH) from patients with different hematological malignancies undergoing autologous bone marrow transplantation. Analysis of 25 BMH showed that the mean percentage of WBC and MNC recovered after filtration was respectively 92.28 +/- 7.42% and 92.3 +/- 9.05% of the original BMH while after centrifugation the percentage was 20.23 +/- 6.47% and 75.7 +/- 12.81%. The percentage of cells present in the tissue fragments trapped in the filters obtained from five BMH was only 3.93 +/- 1.25% (WBC) and 5.65 +/- 2.2% (MNC) of those originally present in the harvest. Phenotypic analysis performed on the same samples showed that there is no selective loss of MNC or CD34+ cells in the filtration process. Our data indicate that processing of BMH, in particular filtration of tissue fragments, does not affect the recovery of HSC.
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