Jayme Locke, MD MARCO ISLAND, Fla.—The transplant community may want to rethink the importance of HLA mismatches when considering live donor kidney transplants, according to new data presented here at ...
Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is an established therapeutic intervention for a variety of haematological malignancies and non-malignant disorders. Central to the success of HSCT is ...
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have identified a new way of predicting whether a kidney donor and recipient are a good match for transplantation. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...
ORLANDO -- Stem-cell transplants with mismatched unrelated donors (MMUDs) beyond a single HLA locus (<7/8) had 1-year survival similar to better-matched donors, suggesting significant potential to ...
HLA matching in bone marrow transplantation has an important role in determining successful outcome. However HLA typing of both potential related and unrelated donors can be both time-consuming and ...
Analyses of two large stem-cell transplant registries yielded conflicting results about the effect of post-transplant cyclophosphamide (PTCy) for graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis on the ...
The selection of suitable donors is crucial for the long-term recovery of patients after an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT). Primarily, the transplantation from a ...
Post-Transplant Cyclophosphamide–Based Graft-Versus-Host Disease Prophylaxis Attenuates Disparity in Outcomes Between Use of Matched or Mismatched Unrelated Donors The study included 17,292 unrelated ...
“Since the discovery of transplantation as a life-saving therapy for blood malignancies by Dr. E Donnall Thomas, there have been major advances that have significantly lowered the side effects and ...
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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who received stem cell grafts from unrelated donors matched at as few as 4/8 HLA markers achieved ...