Homozygous α-Thalassemia Treated with Intrauterine Transfusions and Unrelated Donor Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 154, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 766-768

  Yi, Joanna S ^a   Moertel, Christopher L ^b   Baker, K Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSULFAN; CYCLOSPORIN; FLUDARABINE; HEMOGLOBIN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; RITUXIMAB; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

2 ALPHA GLOBIN 4 GENE; ALPHA THALASSEMIA; AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FATALITY; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HLA MATCHING; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HYDRAMNIOS; INTRAUTERINE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; JAUNDICE; LYMPH NODE IRRADIATION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL RATE;

ALPHA-THALASSEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, INTRAUTERINE; CHIMERISM; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMOGLOBINS, ABNORMAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 64149103412     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2008.11.031     Document Type: Article

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