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Marked improvement of cardiac function early after non-myeloablative BMT in a heavily transfused patient with severe aplastic anemia and heart failure

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  1. Department of Medicine and Biosystemic Science, Kyushu University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Fukuoka, Japan

    Y Kunisaki, K Takase, T Miyamoto, M Fukata, A Nonami, K Kamezaki, Y Kaji, H Gondo, M Harada & K Nagafuji

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Kunisaki, Y., Takase, K., Miyamoto, T. et al. Marked improvement of cardiac function early after non-myeloablative BMT in a heavily transfused patient with severe aplastic anemia and heart failure. Bone Marrow Transplant 40, 593–595 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bmt.1705764

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