Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation For Autoimmune Diseases

Most patients with autoimmune disorders respond to conventional drug therapies; however, conventional drug therapies are not curative-and a proportion of patients suffer from autoimmune diseases that range from the severe to the recalcitrant to the rapidly progressive. It is in this group of patients with a severe autoimmune disease that alternative therapies have been sought, including hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT).