Historical Breakthroughs for Inherited Metabolic Storage Disease Patients at Fairview-University Blood and Marrow Transplant Services
1968 First HLA matched sibling donor BMT in the world
1982 First BMT (sibling donor) for IMSD (Maroteaux-Lamy)
1989 First Unrelated Donor BMT for IMSD (Hurler syndrome)
1994 First Umbilical Cord Blood HCT for IMSD (Krabbe Disease)
1999 First use of mesenchymal stem cells in IMSD BMT (MLD)
2000 First non-myelobablative BMT for IMSD
2001 200th BMT performed for IMSDs
2002 First use of peripheral blood stem cells in IMSD BMT (Hurler syndrome)
2004 300th BMT performed for IMSDs
