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Article: Stem-cell transplantation may have limited benefit for RA patients.
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- Immunotherapy Weekly
- Article date:
- October 22, 2003
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2003 OCT 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Stem-cell transplantation may have limited benefit for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients.
"Allogeneic blood stem cell transplantation with reduced conditioning has been proposed as a new, potentially curative treatment option" for RA patients, scientists in Germany explained.
In the journal Bone Marrow Transplantation, C. Tapprich and coauthors at the University of Dusseldorf described their experience treating "a 60-year-old woman with RA and coexisting multiple myeloma".
The patient received "high-dose melphalan and autologous blood stem cell transplantation (BSCT) followed by a nonmyeloablative ...