New cost-effective human leukocyte antigen testing algorithm for screening of human leukocyte antigen-matched related donor in thalassemia major patient pretransplant workup: A single-center study from resource-constrained settings

• Main Authors: Parvind Singh (Author), Aseem Kumar Tiwari (Author), Vikash Chandra Mishra (Author), Dinesh Chandra (Author), Amit K Bhardwaj (Author), Nikki Dey (Author), Vimarsh Raina (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Introduction: India has a huge disease burden of thalassemia major with an estimated 40 million carriers and over a million thalassemia major patients. Very few patients are optimally treated, and the standard of care "hematopoietic stem cell transplant" (HSCT) is out of reach for most pat...