RE: UI Health validates cure for sickle cell in adults
Physicians at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health
Sciences System have cured 12 adult patients of sickle cell disease using a
unique procedure for stem cell transplantation from healthy, tissue-matched
siblings.
The transplants were the first
to be performed outside of the National Institutes of Health campus in
Maryland, where the procedure was developed. Physicians there have
treated 30 patients, with an 87 percent success rate. The results of
the phase I/II clinical trial at UI Health, in which 92 percent of treated
patients were cured, are published online in the journal Biology of Blood &
Marrow Transplantation.
Please read more about this historic advancement in the
treatment of sickle cell disease by clicking on the link below.
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