French multicenter 22 year-experience of Stem Cell transplantation for Beta-Thalassemia Major: lessons and future directions
Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, 08/17/2012
Galambrun C et al. – In view of the increased risk of graft rejection after matched sibling hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), current national French guidelines recommend for all risk–group thalassemic children the systematic addition of Anti–Thymocyte Globulin (ATG) to the myeloablative conditioning regimen and a special attention to optimize transfusion and chelation therapy in the pre–transplant period.



