Successful hematopoietic SCT from non-identical twins to two sisters with Β-thalassemia major by using preimplantation genetic diagnosis and HLA typing

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1581-1582

  Yesilipek, M A ^a   Karasu, G ^a   Ercelen N ^b   Uygun, V ^a   Akcan, M ^a   Kupesiz, A ^a   Hazar, V ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b AMERICAN HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSULFAN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; METHOTREXATE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BETA GLOBIN GENE; CASE REPORT; CELL COUNT; CHELATION THERAPY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEPATOMEGALY; HLA MATCHING; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALASSEMIA MAJOR; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADOLESCENT; BETA-THALASSEMIA; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; SIBLINGS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84856101719     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2010.344     Document Type: Letter

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