introduction: severe acquired aplastic anemia (saa) is a rare disease and matched related hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (hsct) is the treatment of choice especially in pediatric patients. immunosuppressive therapy is the alternative treatment in patients who do not have a donor. we retrospectively analyzed patients who received allogeneic hsct at our institution. methods: between 1991...

introduction: zinc (zn) deficiency can cause significant defects in cellular immunity. hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (hsct) patients usually experience serious deficiencies of all components of the immune system. therefore, the maintenance of a normal zn status may be important in this group of patients. patients and methods: serum zn levels were analyzed in 55 patients during the hsc...

the most important factor in donor-recipient matching for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is their hla typing. for many patients, we can not find a full-matched donor. in high risk patients, one locus  mismatched related donors are suitable alternatives. (1, 2) since the matching of patients and their siblings usually is based on low resolution hla typing, the matching of one locus mism...

introduction: acute myelogenous leukemia (aml) is a clonal  malignant disease of hematopoietic tissue. the early use of  hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (hsct) for aml was for patients with advanced stages of disease, usually while in relapse, in second or subsequent remission, or with resistant disease. patients and methods: from march 1991 until february 2008, 356(65%) registered allo...

from 1996 to 2002, fifty three patients with major beta-thalassemia received allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell trans plantation (pbsct). median age was 6 years .twenty two were class i, 17 class ii and 14 class iii. all of the donors were hla-identical. conditioning regimen for class i and ii patients consisted of cyclophosphamide (cy) 50 mg/kg/day for 4 days + busulfan (bu) 3.5 mg/kg for 4...

objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of local cryotherapy on the intensity of chemotherapy-induced oral mucositis in autologous bone marrow transplantation patients. patients and methods in this single, blinded, randomized clinical trial, 29 patients undergoing stem cell transplantation in iran were selected by convenience sampling, and randomly allocated to control (...

introduction: bronchiolitis obliterans (bo) is one of the most important pulmonary complications of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (hsct). we decided to evaluate the prevalence and risk factors of bo in hsct patients in the shariati hospital oncology research center. materials and methods: forty two patients, who had had hsct for at least 6 months ago, completed the study. the diagnosi...

purpose: to report the clinical findings and compare the outcomes of different surgical techniques evolved over time in a large series of patients with delayed-onset mustard gas keratitis (mgk). methods: this interventional retrospective case series includes patients with complications of delayed mgk. medical and surgical interventions to address dry eye, limbal ischemia and limbal stem cell de...

Background: This article reviews experimental and clinical studies in which neural injuries repaired with bone marrow stromal cells. History: Bone marrow contains two kinds of stem cells: hematopoietic and nonhematopoietic (stromal) stem cell. In vitro studies indicate that bone marrow stromal cells have the capacity of differentiation into other cells (such as neural cell) under treatment wit...