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Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation from non-sibling matched family donors for patients with thalassemia major in Jordan.
Pediatric transplantation - 1 Feb 2016
Hussein Ayad Ahmed, Al-Zaben Abdulhadi, Khattab Eman, Haroun Anas, Frangoul Haydar
Abstract excerpt
There are limited data on the outcome of patients with thalassemia receiving HSCT from non-sibling matched family donors. Of the 341 patients with thalassemia major that underwent donor search at our center from January 2003 to December 2011, 236 (69.2%) had fully matched family donor of which 28 patients (8.2%) had non-sibling matched family donors identified. We report on seven patients with a median age of...
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