title: Pediatric bone marrow transplantation: current progress and future prospects.
abstract: Ongoing clinical and laboratory research is being directed at the many problems and complications associated with clinical bone marrow transplantation. The most important goals are to increase the long-term survival of patients receiving bone marrow transplants, decrease the morbidity associated with the process, and extend this therapeutic modality to patients in need of a transplant, but without an HLA identical sibling. In addition, as these problems are resolved, and the toxicity of BMT is controlled, this form of therapy may become the treatment of choice for a number of inherited and acquired hematologic, immunologic, and metabolic disorders that are chronically progressive but ultimately fatal, yet are not now routinely treated with BMT due to the acute morbidity and mortality associated with this major procedure.
mesh_terms: D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D002648:Child; D006086:Graft vs Host Disease / Q000517:prevention & control; D006680:HLA Antigens / Q000235:genetics; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006801:Humans; D007938:Leukemia / Q000628:therapy; D011379:Prognosis; D014181:Transplantation Immunology
chemical_list: D006680:HLA Antigens