TY - BOOK AU - Sherif Salah Abdelfattah AU - Dina Abbas Effat , AU - Somaya Anwar Hussain , TI - Stem cell transplantation for patients with severe rheumatic auto - immune disease / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Sherif Salah Abdelfattah , KW - Rheumatologic autoimmune diseases KW - Stem cells KW - Transhplantation N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation; Issued also as CD N2 - Autoimmune diseases constitute a heterogeneous group of conditions commonly treated with anti - inflammatory immunosuppressant and immunomodulating drugs with satisfactory results in most cases . Nevertheless some patients become resistant to conventional therapy . The use of high doses od drugs in such cases results in the need for bone marrow reconstitution a situation which has stimulated research into the use of stem cells in autoimmune disease therapy ER -