title: Latest advances from basic and clinical research in hematology.
abstract: New treatments in hematological malignancies were a focal point of sessions and presentations at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology, held December 15, 2000, in San Francisco, California, U.S.A. The meeting also provided discussion on pathogen inactivation in blood banking, stem cell transplantation in leukemia as well as nonmalignant diseases, the reparative potential of stem cells, a new oral antithrombotic therapy and a new class of highly selective factor Xa inhibitors.
authors.affiliation: Hemotherapy/Hemostatis Department of the Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain.
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authors.lastname: Díaz-Ricart