Low-cost matched sibling bone marrow transplant for standard-risk thalassemia in a limited-resource setting

• Main Authors: Stalin Ramprakash (Author), Rajat Agarwal (Author), Rakesh Dhanya (Author), Priya Marwah (Author), Rajpreet Soni (Author), Naila Yaqub (Author), Itrat Fatima (Author), Tatheer Zhara (Author), Lallindra Gooneratne (Author), Senani Williams (Author), Sadaf Khalid (Author), Santanu Sen (Author), Vikramjit Kanwar (Author), Lawrence Faulkner (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Thalassemias are the most common inherited genetic disorder in India and a major public health burden with bone marrow transplant (BMT) considered the only established curative therapy. We describe outcomes for patients (n = 71) with standard-risk thalassemia (liver size < 2 cm and age <15 yea...