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[Economic evaluation of the organization of a registry of haematopoietic stem cell donors].
Revue d'epidemiologie et de sante publique - 1 Aug 2007
Feve F, Cambon-Thomsen A, Eliaou J-F, Gourraud P-A, Raffoux C, Florens J-P
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Availability of a healthy, human-leukocyte-antigen-matched hematopoietic stem cell source is a prerequisite for successful allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. In 70% of cases, the search of hematopoietic stem cells shifts from siblings to unrelated donor registries. Given that the Human Leucocytes Antigens (HLA) system is highly polymorphic and that the cost of HLA typing remains high,...
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