Transient spontaneous engraftment of CD34 hematopoietic cord blood stem cells as seen in peripheral blood: Treatment of leprosy patients with anemia by placental umbilical cord whole blood transfusion

Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 159-163

  Bhattacharya, N ^a,b  

^a Bijoygarh State Hospital   (India)

^b Moore Avenue Specialist Polyclinic ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Immune mosaic leprosy transient transplantation; Impact of transfusion; Safe placental umbilical cord blood transfusion

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; GANGRENE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; LEPROSY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; SCHOOL CHILD; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750961602     PISSN: 03906663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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