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This procedure is the most common cause of a disease diagnosed via the Billingham criteria that appears with diarrhea, liver damage, or a morbilliform rash. This procedure’s efficacy is correlated to the CD34-positive cell dose. Fludarabine and melphalan are used for reduced-intensity conditioning prior to this procedure, (10[1])while full-intensity regimens use cyclophosphamide, (10[1])busulfan, or total irradiation. (10[1]-5[1])Liyna Anwar’s death highlighted the difficulty accessing (10[1])this procedure (10[1])faced by South Asians. (-5[1])Tissue (10[1])from a CCR-5-delta-32-carrier used in this procedure cured the (10[1])Berlin (-5[1])patient’s (-5[1])HIV. (10[4])This procedure may result in graft-vs-tumor effects. (10[1])Allogeneic kinds of this procedure may use a haploidentical (10[1])relative donor when a preferred 10 of 10 HLA (10[1])match (10[1])is unavailable. (10[1])For 10 points, Be The Match operates (10[1])a donor (10[1]-5[1])registry for what procedure (10[1])used to treat leukemia and other hematological problems? (10[1]0[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: hematopoietic stem cell transplant [or HSCT; accept bone marrow transplant or BMT; accept peripheral blood stem cell transplant or peripheral stem cell transplant or PBSCT; accept transplantation in place of “transplant”; prompt on transplantation; reject “blood transfusion”]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2488%0%21%89.19

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ameya PhadnisRutgers BHouston A4610
Julian GatchSouth Carolina AIowa State A5110
Noah ChenColumbia BImperial A5510
Paul LeeWUSTL AGeorgia Tech A55-5
Raymond ChenToronto AMIT A6210
Nat KuNYU AJohns Hopkins A6410
Joelle SmartRutgers AGeorgia Tech B68-5
Natan HoltzmanStanford AChicago B6910
Daniel MaYale AMaryland A7810
Jason HongBrown AChicago A79-5
Matthew SiffYale BIllinois A80-5
Jim FanNorth Carolina ANorthwestern A8110
Brad MacLaineTexas AMinnesota A8110
Geoffrey WuColumbia AChicago C8110
Ben DahlPurdue AMichigan A8110
Vinu HariharUC Berkeley BFlorida B8810
Neal JoshiWUSTL BPenn State A9710
Jacob Van OorschotMcGill APenn A10610
Benjamin WeinerMinnesota BVanderbilt A10710
Mazin OmerHarvard ACornell B10910
Jacob EgolDuke AOhio State A11610
Shahar SchwartzUC Berkeley AIndiana A11810
Alana DickeyVirginia AClaremont A118-5
Geoffrey ChenCornell AFlorida A12210
Max BrodskyIllinois AYale B1300
Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech AWUSTL A13010
Adam FineChicago ABrown A13110