A successful booster umbilical cord blood transplantation for a 10-year-old patient with beta-thalassemia major in India

We present a case of a 10-year-old girl with beta-thalassemia major who was successfully cured with allogeneic booster umbilical cord blood (UCB) transplantation with outcome data after 3 years of transplantation, in India. Postdiagnosis, she was on regular once-a-month blood transfusion until the age of 10 years, with no improvement. No serious adverse events occurred in the patient post-UCB transplantation. Chronic graft versus host disease was limited and was managed by medicines. Signs of primary graft rejection were also not seen.
Source: Asian Journal of Transfusion Science - Category: Hematology Authors: Source Type: research