title: Preparation for blood group-incompatible bone marrow transplantation: comparison of two techniques.
abstract: Two similar techniques of red cell depletion of blood group-incompatible marrow prior to bone marrow transplantation were compared in 8 patients. The first method involved a single sedimentation step and removed a mean of 91% of marrow red cells and 33% of marrow nucleated cells. The second method involved multiple sedimentation steps and removed a mean of 96% of red cells and 29% of nucleated cells. Both methods can be recommended to a transfusion service newly involved in a bone marrow transplantation program.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, New York Medical College, Westchester County Medical Center, Valhalla.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ciavarella
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ahmed
mesh_terms: D001787:Blood Group Incompatibility; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D002469:Cell Separation / Q000379:methods; D004912:Erythrocytes; D006801:Humans