|
|
|
Immune Disorders
Cord Blood Stem Cells Last Resort for Young Man with Rare Immune Disease
The Courier-Journal
February 6, 2007
Freddie suffers from hyper-IgM syndrome, a condition there is no screening for. His immune system fails to produce certain antibodies, a characteristic of the rare disease which he was born with. Freddie will begin chemotherapy this week and his enlarged spleen will receive radiation in preparation for the transplant which involves umbilical cord blood stem cells taken from two different sources.
|
|
