Adults with sickle cell disease cured with stem cell transplants
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 - 19:10
in Health & Medicine
University of Illinois at Chicago physicians have cured 12 adult patients of sickle cell disease using stem cell transplantation from healthy, tissue-matched siblings. The transplants at UI Health were the first performed outside the National Institutes of Health campus in Maryland, where the procedure was developed. Because the technique eliminates the need for chemotherapy to prepare the […]