Hematopoietic cell transplantation for thalassemia and sickle cell disease: Past, present and future

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 109-117

  Bhatia, M ^a   Walters, M C ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BETA GLOBIN; BUSULFAN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; FLUDARABINE; HLA ANTIGEN; HYDROXYUREA; IRON; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PENICILLIN G; THIOTEPA; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DONOR SELECTION; DRUG RESPONSE; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; GONAD DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; GRAFT VERSUS LEUKEMIA EFFECT; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; IRON OVERLOAD; LOW DRUG DOSE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REDUCED INTENSITY CONDITIONING; REVIEW; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SPLEEN DISEASE; STEM CELL GENE THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; THALASSEMIA MAJOR; TREATMENT INDICATION; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; VIRUS INFECTION; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INFANT; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SIBLING RELATIONS; THALASSEMIA; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 38849161460     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1705943     Document Type: Review

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