Leukocyte Adhesion Defect Type 1. Reporting Patient Series and their Survival Without Bone Marrow Transplantation

Leukocyte Adhesion Defect Type 1. Reporting Patient Series and their Survival Without Bone Marrow Transplantation

Omar Abuzaitoun, Husni Maqbuol, Hasan Fitian, Hikamt Al Sae’ed

oabuzaitoun@pol.net

Faculty of Medicine. An-Najah National University. Nablus. Palestine.

Received : 21-12-2004 , Accepted : 28-08-2005

Language: English

Abstract

The survival of patients suffering from severe LADI is discussed in this paper. The approach is to do bone marrow transplantation as soon as possible, however, we report 4 patients suffering from severe LADI, who did not have bone marrow transplantation. We report the favorable outcome with conservative treatment (prophylactic antibiotics)

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