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ArticleChimerism2011

Split chimerism between nucleated and red blood cells after bone marrow transplantation for haemoglobinopathies.

Marco Andreani, Manuela Testi, Mariarosa Battarra, Guido Lucarelli

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Article in Chimerism, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for people with β-thalassaemia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021
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  4. Advances in the management of α-thalassemia major: reasons to be optimistic.Hematology. American Society of Hematology. Education Program · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Marco AndreaniLaboratory of Immunogenetics; IME Foundation at Polyclinic of Tor Vergata Foundation; Rome, Italy.
Manuela Testi
Mariarosa Battarra
Guido Lucarelli
Policlinico Tor Vergata · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previous studies have shown that a stable presence of both donor and recipient haematopoietic derived cells after allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) occurs in approximately ten percent of the patients affected by β-Thalassemia. Once achieved this condition, defined as persistent mixed chimerism (PMC), the patients do not require additional red blood cells (RBCs) support and, regardless of the presence in some cases of an extremely low percentage of donor-derived nucleated cells, they are clinically cured by an incomplete, but functional graft. Most of the published papers have, however, investigated the impact of donor engraftment in the nucleated cells rather than in the mature erythrocytes. We have recently published a paper showing that in four long-term transplanted patients affected by hemoglobinopathies, characterized by the presence of few donor engrafted nucleated cells-both in the peripheral blood and in the bone marrow-the majority of the erythrocytes were of donor origin. Moreover we showed that the proportion of donor-derived erythroid precursors, determined by analyzing singularly picked-up burst-forming unit erythroid colonies, was equivalent to that observed in the mature nucleated cells rather than in the red blood cells. These results suggest that in patients characterized by the presence of PMC after HSCT a selective advantage of the donor erythroid precursors maturation might successfully contrast the problems bound to the recipient ineffective erythropoiesis. When genetically modified HSCT will be a possible option for treating Thalassemia Major, the co-existence of the repaired cells with those still expressing the genetic defect will be an expected scenario, not in an allogeneic, but in an autologous environment.

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PMID21547033
PMCPMC3084953
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