Successful remission of chronic, refractory autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura following non-myeloablative allogeneic stem cell transplantation [3]

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 621-622

  Butler, J P ^a   Durrant, S T S ^a   Frost, T ^b  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Holy Spirit Hospital   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; FLUDARABINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; STEROID; THROMBOCYTE ANTIBODY; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CHIMERA; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; STEM CELL MOBILIZATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; REMISSION INDUCTION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0038066648     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1703897     Document Type: Letter

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