Mehmet Ertem

TL;DR: Analysis of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation from HLA-identical siblings for thalassemia and sickle cell disease found related CBT for hemoglobinopathies offers a good probability of success and is associated with a low risk of GVHD.

TL;DR: The search for a useful clinical laboratory diagnostic assay for the antiplatelet antibodies has been long and difficult, and measurement of platelet associated IgG (PAIgG) has been disappointing as a way to detect autoantibodies.

TL;DR: It is suggested that donor and recipient be evaluated for brucellosis especially in countries where the incidence of this infection is relatively high and the need to consider bru cellosis in patients undergoing BMT is emphasized.

TL;DR: Full recovery of 44 sick children who received HSCT from healthy infants conceived after pre-implantation HLA matching for the following 10 indications are reported; beta-thalassaemia, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, Fanconi anaemia, sickle cell anaemia), acute myeloid leukaemia, acute lymphoblastic leukaemi, Glanzmann's thrombasthaenia, Diamond-Blackfan anaemia and mucopolysaccharidosis type

TL;DR: The findings suggest that there is a high rate of fungal colonization in children receiving remission induction therapy for acute leukemia and lymphoma, andLimiting the use of antibiotics and instituting antifungal chemoprophylaxis may decrease the rate, while the early initiation of empiric antIFungal therapy in patients with fever and suspected mycotic colonization may increase survival in these patients.