HOME SEARCH CURRENT ISSUE PAST ISSUES ... HELP Please sign in for full text and personal services Previous Volume 352:2069-2081 May 19, 2005 Number 20 Next Transplantation of Umbilical-Cord Blood in Babies with Infantile Krabbe's Disease Maria L. Escolar, M.D., Michele D. Poe, Ph.D., James M. Provenzale, M.D., Karen C. Richards, M.D., June Allison, R.N., Susan Wood, P.N.P., David A. Wenger, Ph.D., Daniel Pietryga, M.D., Donna Wall, M.D., Martin Champagne, M.D., Richard Morse, M.D., William Krivit, M.D., Ph.D., and Joanne Kurtzberg, M.D. Full Text PDF PDA Full Text PowerPoint Slide Set ... PubMed Citation ABSTRACT Background Infantile Krabbe's disease produces progressive neurologic deterioration and death in early childhood. We hypothesized that transplantation of umbilical-cord blood from unrelated donors before the development of symptoms would favorably alter the natural history of the disease among newborns in whom the disease was diagnosed because of a family history. We compared the outcomes among these newborns with the outcomes among infants who underwent transplantation after the development of symptoms and with the outcomes in an untreated cohort of affected children. | |
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