Sentences with phrase «unrelated donor stem cell transplants»

Abatacept, when added to the standard drug regimen used to prevent GvHD, reduced the occurrence of acute, grade III - IV GvHD from 32 to 3 percent in pediatric and adult patients who underwent mismatched unrelated donor stem cell transplants to treat advanced cancer and other blood disorders.

Another study is testing whether unrelated donor stem cell transplant can provide better long - term outcomes than traditional immunosuppressive therapy (IST) for children with severe aplastic anemia.

Not exact matches

Ildstad and her colleagues report that five of eight people who underwent the treatment were able to stop all immunosuppressive therapy within a year after their kidney and stem - cell transplants, four of which came from unrelated donors.

Concerned that the drug by itself might not keep his aggressive cancer at bay, Wartman opted for a second transplant — this time with stem cells isolated from peripheral blood from an unrelated donor.

Patients receive one of two types of stem cell - based transplants: autologous, in which a patient donates and receives back his / her own stem cells; or allogeneic, in which bone marrow - derived stem cells come from a related or unrelated donor whose human leukocyte antigens (HLA) are genetically matched with those of a patient.