Sickle cell disease (SCD) has a widely variable clinical course; some of them are
severely affected in childhood while in others major damage does not manifest until
adulthood. There is no test that can be used to predict the disease course. The best
predictor of SCD severity is a patient’s course to date [
[1]
]. Patients’ quality of life is low and life expectancy is relatively short, nearly
50 years, even newly developed treatments such as iron chelating and disease modifying
agents. The only curative treatment option is allogeneic stem cell transplantation
(Allo-SCT), but only one fifth of the patients have matched sibling donor. Even they
have, there are several complications may develop during and after the transplantation
[
[2]
]. This is why there is a safer, convenient and accessible treatments are needed for
them. Gene therapy would be one of them.- Benítez-Carabante M.I.
- Beléndez C.
- González-Vicent M.
- Alonso L.
- Uría-Oficialdegui M.L.
- Torrent M.
- et al.
Grupo Español de Trasplante de Médula Ósea en Niños (GETMON), Grupo Español de Trasplante
Hematopoyético (GETH). Matched sibling donor stem cell transplantation for sickle
cell disease: Results from the Spanish group for bone marrow transplantation in children.
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