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Successful cord blood transplantation in a 42-day-old boy with infantile Krabbe disease

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Acknowledgments

We thank Dr. Norio Sakai (Department of Pediatrics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka) for enzyme activity tests and Prof. Etsuro Ito and Dr. Kiminori Terui (Department of Pediatrics, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki) for the patient’s follow-up. We also thank the Japan Society for Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for providing the data of patients transplanted in Japan. None of the authors has any financial interests to declare.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Nihon University, 30-1 Oyaguchi Kami-cho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8610, Japan

    Hiroshi Yagasaki, Maiko Kato, Mika Ishige, Hiroyuki Shichino, Motoaki Chin & Hideo Mugishima

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Yagasaki, H., Kato, M., Ishige, M. et al. Successful cord blood transplantation in a 42-day-old boy with infantile Krabbe disease. Int J Hematol 93, 566–568 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12185-011-0835-6

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