title: Successful engraftment in two adult patients with severe aplastic anemia using nonmyeloablative conditioning followed by unrelated HLA-mismatched cord blood transplantation.
abstract: Umbilical cord blood as an alternative source of hematopoietic stem cells and nonmyeloablative conditioning are very exciting new developments in transplantation. We report here mixed chimerism in two adult patients with severe aplastic anaemia using nonmyeloablative conditioning and two-antigen mismatched cord blood transplantation resulting in satisfactory clinical response. Our results suggest that such transplant is possible with minimal toxicity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT Hong Kong.
authors.forename: F Y
authors.initials: FY
authors.lastname: Lau
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Chui
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cheng
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000741:Anemia, Aplastic / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005312:Fetal Blood / Q000166:cytology / Q000276:immunology*; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D018183:Transplantation Chimera; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous / Q000276:immunology