What is Matched Sibling Donor Transplant?
A matched sibling donor transplant is an allogeneic transplant in which a brother or sister is a fully HLA-matched donor after independent medical assessment, not simply because the children share a household. A fully matched sibling is a different donor class from a haploidentical parent and from a matched unrelated registry donor. Those routes have their own catalog sheets. This page is about confirmatory HLA identity, the ethics of a child donor, and how sibling harvest is sequenced with the recipient’s conditioning.
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