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Case Reports
Treatment of severe acute graft-versus-host disease with third party haploidentical mesenchymal stem cells.
- Katarina Le Blanc, Ida Rasmusson, Berit Sundberg, Cecilia Götherström, Moustapha Hassan, Mehmet Uzunel, and Olle Ringdén.
- Division of Clinical Immunology and Centre for Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. Katarina.Leblanc@medhs.ki.se
- Lancet. 2004 May 1; 363 (9419): 1439-41.
AbstractAdult bone-marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells are immunosuppressive and prolong the rejection of mismatched skin grafts in animals. We transplanted haploidentical mesenchymal stem cells in a patient with severe treatment-resistant grade IV acute graft-versus-host disease of the gut and liver. Clinical response was striking. The patient is now well after 1 year. We postulate that mesenchymal stem cells have a potent immunosuppressive effect in vivo.
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