Loma Linda Hospital ‘Effecively Cures’ Girl Using Stem Cells Transplanted from Dad, Report Says
Apr 18, 2019 07:00 am | Ana Pena
Clinicians at the Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital successfully performed that institute’s first stem cell transplant, and report having “effectively cured” a girl with sickle cell disease (SCD). “She is now disease free and can go back out into the world to do what an 11-year-old should be doing,” Akshat Jain, MD, a pediatric physician specialist in blood disorders, said […]
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Clinicians at the Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital successfully performed that institute’s first stem cell transplant, and report having “effectively cured” a girl with sickle cell disease (SCD). “She is now disease free and can go back out into the world to do what an 11-year-old should be doing,” Akshat Jain, MD, a pediatric physician specialist in blood disorders, said […]
Sickle cell disease patients experience silent strokes in the deep white matter of the brain that is prone to low oxygen supply, a brain-mapping study shows. The study, “Silent infarcts in sickle cell disease occur in the border zone region and are associated with low cerebral blood flow,” was published in the journal Blood. Children […]