Allorgafting for Aplastic Anemia on a Background of HELLP Syndrome in Identical Twins
1Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada.
Clinical Transplantation
|May 6, 2025
Abstract:
Syngeneic twins presented at different times with HELLP (Hemolysis, Elevated Liver Enzymes, Low Platelets) Syndrome, and in both cases, a post-pregnancy with severe aplastic anemia (SAA). Both were managed with matched related donor bone marrow transplant, again at different times, from a HLA-matched third sister, and are doing well more than 15 years later. Management of AA is discussed.
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