Outcome of patients with hemoglobinopathies given either cord blood or bone marrow transplantation from an HLA-identical sibling.

We analyzed the outcomes of 485 patients with thalassemia major (TM) or sickle cell disease (SCD) receiving HLA-identical sibling cord blood transplantation (CBT, n = 96) or bone marrow transplantation (BMT, n = 389). Compared with patients given BMT, CBT recipients were significantly younger (media...

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Main Authors: Locatelli, F, Kabbara, N, Ruggeri, A, Ghavamzadeh, A, Roberts, I, Li, C, Bernaudin, F, Vermylen, C, Dalle, J, Stein, J, Wynn, R, Cordonnier, C, Pinto, F, Angelucci, E, Socié, G, Gluckman, E, Walters, M, Rocha, V
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2013