“I always knew I had this condition that no one else around me had,” says Tatyana Thompson, who has sickle cell disease. “Growing up, I knew it was important to …
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Bone marrow transplantion
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Heart Transplantation
Johns Hopkins team successfully performs five heart transplants in seven days
by News Sourceby News SourceThe Johns Hopkins Medicine heart transplant team reached a significant program milestone in early February when it successfully completed five adult heart transplants in just seven days. This was the …
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Bone marrow transplantion
Haploidentical Bone Marrow Transplant – Pediatric Oncology at Johns Hopkins University Kimmel Cancer Center
by News Sourceby News SourceDoctors.Heather Simmons and Ken Cook The lack of suitable bone marrow donors to meet patients’ needs inspired Johns Hopkins scientists to pioneer haploidentical bone marrow transplantation (BMT). This breakthrough has …
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Liver Transplantation
Living Living Liver Transplant | Johns Hopkins Medicine
by News Sourceby News SourceLiver transplantation has been accepted as a life-saving treatment and standard of care for many forms of end-stage liver disease since the early 1980s. Initially, all liver transplants used livers …
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Some of the early research at Kimmel Cancer Center was in bone marrow transplants. In fact, the first human bone marrow transplant at Johns Hopkins took place in his 1968, …