Bone marrow transplantation in adults with thalassemia: Treatment and long-term follow-up

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1054, Issue , 2005, Pages 196-205

  Gaziev, Javid ^a   Sodani, Pietro ^a   Polchi, Paola ^a   Andreani, Marco ^a   Lucarelli, Guido ^a  

^a TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adult thalassemia; BMT; Long term follow up

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; AZATHIOPRINE; BUSULFAN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; DEFEROXAMINE; FLUDARABINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; HLA ANTIGEN; HYDROXYUREA; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHELATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG POTENTIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEPATITIS C; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SURVIVAL; THALASSEMIA;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 29744438595     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1345.024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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