Stricter management of organ transplants


Stricter management of organ transplants

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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe As former president of the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation and of the foundation Swiss Blood Stem Cells, I suggest that


haematopoietic stem-cell transplantation can offer lessons in stricter control of organ transplants and in promoting global cooperation. The Worldwide Network for Blood and Marrow


Transplantation (www.wbmt.org) has 20 million volunteer stem-cell donors, whose human leukocyte antigens (HLAs) have been typed to allow matching. Donors are selected only for matching with


individual recipients and are protected and followed up according to standardized rules (J. P. Halter _et al_. _Bone Marrow Transpl._ http://doi.org/h54; 2012). This is a preview of


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Switzerland Alois Gratwohl Authors * Alois Gratwohl View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Correspondence to Alois


Gratwohl. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTRIBUTIONS Correspondence may be sent to [email protected] after consulting the author guidelines at http://go.nature.com/cmchno. RIGHTS AND


PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Gratwohl, A. Stricter management of organ transplants. _Nature_ 488, 459 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/488459b


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