August 6, 2006

A reorganized Category XII. Sickle cell disease and thalassemia with numerous new citations.

i. Sickle Cell Disease

1. Clinical Aspects
2. Neurologic Complications
3. Bone Marrow and PBSC Transplantation
4. Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation

ii. Thalassemia

1. Clinical Aspects
2. Bone Marrow and PBSC Transplantation
3. Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation
4. Iron Overload and Chelation

A new Category: Acute Radiation Injury. (XIX. Miscellaneous Topics, category vii.)

New Citations

1. Category XII. i. Sickle Cell Disease

1. Inverse correlation between cerebral blood flow and neurocognitive function in children with sickle cell anemia. (B. Neurologic Complications, Citation #1)
2. Stroke prevention trial in sickle cell anemia – Final results. ( B. Neurologic Complications, Citation #6)
3. Blood stream infection in adults with sickle cell disease. (A. Clinical Aspects, Citation #15)
4. Pulmonary hypertension in patients with sickle cell disease. (A. Clinical Aspects, Citation #14)

2. Category XII ii. Thalassemia

1. Decision-making in adult thalassemia undergoing unrelated BMT. (B. Bone Marrow and PBSC Transplants, Citation #1)
2. Outcomes of transplantation with related- and unrelated-donor stem cells in children with severe thalassemia. (B. Bone marrow and PBSC Transplants, Citation #2)
3. Allogeneic HSCT from unrelated donors for class 3 beta-thalassemia major using reduced-intensity conditioning regimen. (B. Bone Marrow and PBSC Transplants, Citation #4)
4. Oral Chelators deferasirox and deferiprone: New data, new questions. (D. Iron overload and chelation, Citation #1)
5. Randomized controlled trial of deferiprone or deferoxamine in β-thalassemia (D. Iron overload and chelation, Citation #2)
6. A phase 3 study of deferasirox, a once-daily oral iron chelator. (D. Iron overload and chelation, Citation #3)
7. Financial burden for treating patients with transfusion-dependent thalassemia. (A. Clinical Aspects, Citation #7)

3. Category XIX. Miscellaneous topics, vi. Acute Radiation Injury. (The role of hematopoietic cell transplantation after a massive radiation accident or terrorist act.)

1. Acute radiation injury: contingency planning for triage, supportive care, and transplantation. (Citation A)
2. Major radiation exposure. (Citation B)

4. Category XIX, Miscellaneous topics, iv. Autoimmune Disease.

1. Feasibility of allogeneic HSCT for autoimmune disease. (Citation #7)
2. Target populations in allogeneic HSCT for autoimmune diseases. (Citation #8)
3. Allogeneic HSCT for autoimmune diseases - the jury is still out. (Citation #9)
4. Twenty year remission of rheumatoid arthritis in 2 patients after allogeneic BMT. (Citation #10)

5. Category XV. New concepts in cord blood transplantation, v. Serial transplantation resulting in tolerance.

1. Serial transplantation resulting in tolerance to an unrelated cord blood graft. (Citation A)