Successful first-line treatment with double umbilical cord blood transplantation in severe aplastic anemia

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 955-956

  Kang, H J ^a   Lee, J W ^a   Kim, H ^a   Shin, H Y ^a   Ahn, H S ^a  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; FLUDARABINE; GANCICLOVIR; HEMOGLOBIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER;

ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; APLASTIC ANEMIA; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENGRAFTMENT SYNDROME; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEMATOCRIT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG MYCOSIS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ANEMIA, APLASTIC; CHILD; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77952427943     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2009.247     Document Type: Letter

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