Aplastic Anemia Therapy
New findings from University Hospital in the area of aplastic anemia therapy published
Published in Stem Cell Week, June 8th, 2009
Fresh data on aplastic anemia are presented in the report 'Aplastic anemia and concomitant autoimmune diseases.' "The association of aplastic anemia (AA) with other autoimmune diseases (AID) has been described but so far not systematically evaluated. We assessed the incidence and the outcome of concomitant AID in a retrospective, single-center study of 243 patients with severe AA treated between 1974 and 2006 with either immunosuppression (186) or hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (57) and a median follow-up time of 9.3 years (0-33)," investigators in Basel, Switzerland report.
"Clinically manifest AID were observed in 24 out of 243 (10 ±3.7%) patients. Age...
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Source: Stem Cell Week (2009-06-08)
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