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Article: Donor BMT Reduces Organ Rejection.(bone marrow transplants)
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- Blood Weekly
- Article date:
- May 31, 1999
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(CW HENDERSON PUBLISHER www.newsfile.com) -- Patients who receive donor bone marrow, a rich source of donor immune system cells, experience less organ rejection, reported University of Pittsburgh researchers at the 18th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Society of Transplantation, held in Chicago, Illinois, May 15-19, 1999.
Rejection might be less of a problem for these patients because the bone marrow makes the recipient's immune system more passive to the donor organ, their findings also suggest.
Moreover, those patients who receive multiple infusions of bone marrow have the lowest risk of acute rejection.
There were 402 organ ...