Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation in a child with hemoglobinopathy olmsted.

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The authors describe the first successful bone marrow transplant for the treatment of hemoglobinopathy Olmsted in a boy who presented with severe transfusion-dependent hemolytic anemia and jaundice at age 4 months. He received bone marrow from an HLA-identical sibling with normal hemoglobin electrophoresis after conditioning with busulfan, cyclophosphamide, and antithymocyte globulin when he was 18 months old....

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