Umbilical cord blood transplant in hepatitis C-associated severe aplastic anemia

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 565-567

  Lim, S H ^a,b   Zhang, Y ^a,b   Wang, Z ^a,b   Varadarajan, R ^a,b   Smith, P ^a,b   Burris, C ^a,b   Townsend, M ^a,b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b Harrington Cancer Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; GANCICLOVIR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; RIBAVIRIN; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; APLASTIC ANEMIA; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEPATITIS C; HERPES ZOSTER; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LIVER BIOPSY; MALE; PANCYTOPENIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANEMIA, APLASTIC; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 1842485139     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1704390     Document Type: Letter

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