title: Bone marrow transplantation in a thalassemia patient with congenital heart disease.
abstract: We report a thalassemia patient suffering from congenital transposition of the great arteries, surgically corrected according to Mustard technique at the age of 4 months, who underwent bone marrow transplantation. Despite a syncopal episode occurring during the first day after marrow infusion the transplant was successful. Thirty-two months later, normalization of hematologic parameters was observed together with a substantial improvement in cardiac function.
authors.affiliation: Divisione Ematologica e Centro Trapianto Midollo Osseo di Muraglia, Italy.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Baronciani
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Angelucci
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Agostinelli
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mariotti
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Baldassarri
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Martinelli
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lacerra
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lucarelli
mesh_terms: D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013789:Thalassemia / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D014188:Transposition of Great Vessels / Q000503:physiopathology*