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Fanconi's anemia
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Fanconi's anemia [′fäŋ· kō·nēz ə′nē·myə]
(medicine)
An infantile anemia that resembles pernicious anemia; related to excessive chromosomal breakage and associated with the risk of developing leukemia.


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In fact, autologous stem cell treatments are now more common than allogeneic stem cell transplantation.
Clinical question: Does exercise during hospitalization after stem cell transplantation decrease reports of fatigue and reduce the duration of the hospital stay?
Since stem cells are only precursors and thus have no antigens that the patient's immune system would recognize as foreign, a stem cell transplantation theoretically would avoid the risk of adverse immune reactions.
 
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