Autologous peripheral blood haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for systemic lupus erythematosus: the observation of long-term outcomes in a Chinese centre.

Abstract

Immunoablation followed by APHSCT has the potential to induce long-term clinical and serologic remissions despite withdrawal of immunosuppressive maintenance therapy. While relapses may occur, in our small cohort of patients we found no predictive markers for relapse development by analysing antibody and complement levels and urinary proteinuria.