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Vasu, S., Wu, H., Satoskar, A. et al. Eculizumab therapy in adults with allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy. Bone Marrow Transplant 51, 1241–1244 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2016.87
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