Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Platt, Orah S
• Guinan, Eva C

Titel

Editorial: Bone marrow transplantation in sickle cell anemia--the dilemma of choice

Ist Teil von

• The New England journal of medicine, 1996-08, Vol.335 (6), p.426

Ort / Verlag

Boston: Massachusetts Medical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

1996

Quelle

Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The small group of patients who survived but were not cured by transplantation will add the long-term effects of busulfan and cyclophosphamide to their already long list of potential medical problems related to sickle cell disease, including the possibility that the vascular insult of the conditioning regimen used for transplantation may ultimately exacerbate the underlying sickle cell disease.