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EC, AM, MC, SR, MT, GB, LS and RC were involved in the clinical management of the patient, MP and MR performed and reviewed the histological examination, RM performed the neuroimaging, AM wrote the paper, and EC, MC, RC and LS critically reviewed the paper. The authors would like to thank Chiara Messina, Marta Pillon, Chiara Mainardi and Maria Gabelli for their participation in the clinical management of the patient. This project was performed thanks to a Grant from Fondazione Città della Speranza ONLUS (16/04).
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Calore, E., Marzollo, A., Cananzi, M. et al. Haploidentical stem cell transplantation cures autoimmune hepatitis and cerebrovascular disease in a patient with sickle cell disease. Bone Marrow Transplant 53, 644–646 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41409-017-0065-5
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