Graft-Versus-Host Disease in Children Who Have Received a Cord-Blood or Bone Marrow Transplant from an HLA-Identical Sibling

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Authors

Vanderson Rocha

John E. Wagner · NHS Blood and Transplant

Kathleen A. Sobocinski · Medical College of Wisconsin

John P. Klein · Medical College of Wisconsin

Mei Jie Zhang · Medical College of Wisconsin

Mary M. Horowitz · Medical College of Wisconsin

Éliane Gluckman · Université Paris Cité

Abstract

Recipients of cord-blood transplants from HLA-identical siblings have a lower incidence of acute and chronic GVHD than recipients of bone marrow transplants from HLA-identical siblings.

Topics & Keywords

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 342, Issue 25, pp. 1846-1854

DOI: 10.1056/nejm200006223422501

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