BONE-MARROW TRANSPLANTATION IN A THALASSEMIA PATIENT WITH CONGENITAL HEART-DISEASE

We report a thalassemia patient suffering from congenital transpositio n of the great arteries, surgically corrected according to Mustard tec hnique at the age of 4 months, who underwent bone marrow transplantati on. Despite a syncopal episode occurring during the first day after ma rrow infusion the transplant was successful. Thirty-two months later, normalization of hematologic parameters was observed together with a s ubstantial improvement in cardiac function.