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01-02-2019 | Letter to the Editor
The world’s first clinical trial for an aplastic anemia patient with thrombocytopenia administering platelets generated from autologous iPS cells
Authors:
Akira Akabayashi, Eisuke Nakazawa, Nancy S. Jecker
Published in:
International Journal of Hematology
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Issue 2/2019
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Excerpt
On September 21, 2018, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced it had approved a plan for the first-ever use of an experimental therapy on a patient with aplastic anemia and thrombocytopenia, which will involve the infusion of platelets generated from an autologous induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). The patient had a history of rejection reactions to allogeneic platelets. …