Karen K. Ballen, MD

Publications

• Amrein PC, Attar EC, Takvorian RW, Hochberg EP, Ballen KK, Leahy KM, Fisher DE, Lacasce AS, Jacobsen ED, Armand P, Hasserjian RP, Werner L, Neuberg DS, Brown JR.Phase II Study of Dasatinib in Relapsed or Refractory Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.Clin Cancer
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• Spitzer TR, Sykes M, Tolkoff-Rubin N, Kawai T, McAfee SL, Dey BR, Ballen K, Delmonico F, Saidman S, Sachs DH, Cosimi AB.Long-term follow-up of recipients of combined human leukocyte antigen-matched bone marrow and kidney transplantation for multiple myelo
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• Horan JT, Logan BR, Agovi-Johnson MA, Lazarus HM, Bacigalupo AA, Ballen KK, Bredeson CN, Carabasi MH, Gupta V, Hale GA, Khoury HJ, Juckett MB, Litzow MR, Martino R, McCarthy PL, Smith FO, Rizzo JD, Pasquini MC.Reducing the risk for transplantation-related
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• Dey BR, Chung SS, Spitzer TR, Zheng H, Macgillivray TE, Seldin DC, McAfee S, Ballen K, Attar E, Wang T, Shin J, Newton-Cheh C, Moore S, Sanchorawala V, Skinner M, Madsen JC, Semigran MJ.Cardiac transplantation followed by dose-intensive melphalan and auto
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• Delaney M, Ballen KK.The role of HLA in umbilical cord blood transplantation.Best Pract Res Clin Haematol. 2010 Jun;23(2):179-87.
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• Barker CC, Agovi MA, Logan B, Lazarus HM, Ballen KK, Gupta V, Hale GA, Frangoul H, Ho V, Rizzo JD, Pasquini MC, .Childhood Obesity and Outcomes after Bone Marrow Transplantation for Patients with Severe Aplastic Anemia.Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2010
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• Cutler C, Stevenson K, Kim HT, Brown J, McDonough S, Herrera M, Reynolds C, Liney D, Kao G, Ho V, Armand P, Koreth J, Alyea E, Dey BR, Attar E, Spitzer T, Boussiotis VA, Ritz J, Soiffer R, Antin JH, Ballen K.Double umbilical cord blood transplantation wit
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• Ballen KK, Cutler C, Yeap BY, McAfee SL, Dey BR, Attar EC, Chen YB, Haspel RL, Liney D, Koreth J, Ho V, Alyea EP, Soiffer RJ, Spitzer TR, Antin JH.Donor Derived Second Hematologic Malignancies after Cord Blood Transplantation.Biol Blood Marrow Transplant.
  20178854
• Schriber J, Agovi MA, Ho V, Ballen KK, Bacigalupo A, Lazarus HM, Bredeson CN, Gupta V, Maziarz RT, Hale GA, Litzow MR, Logan B, Bornhauser M, Giller RH, Isola L, Marks DI, Rizzo JD, Pasquini MC.Second unrelated donor hematopoietic cell transplantation for
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• Brown JA, Stevenson K, Kim HT, Cutler C, Ballen K, McDonough S, Reynolds C, Herrera M, Liney D, Ho V, Kao G, Armand P, Koreth J, Alyea E, McAfee S, Attar E, Dey B, Spitzer T, Soiffer R, Ritz J, Antin JH, Boussiotis VA.Clearance of CMV viremia and survival
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• Ballen KK, Shrestha S, Sobocinski KA, Zhang MJ, Bashey A, Bolwell BJ, Cervantes F, Devine SM, Gale RP, Gupta V, Hahn TE, Hogan WJ, Kröger N, Litzow MR, Marks DI, Maziarz RT, McCarthy PL, Schiller G, Schouten HC, Roy V, Wiernik PH, Horowitz MM, Giralt SA,
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• Baker KS, Davies SM, Majhail NS, Hassebroek A, Klein JP, Ballen KK, Bigelow CL, Frangoul HA, Hardy CL, Bredeson C, Dehn J, Friedman D, Hahn T, Hale G, Lazarus HM, LeMaistre CF, Loberiza F, Maharaj D, McCarthy P, Setterholm M, Spellman S, Trigg M, Maziarz
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• Ulrickson M, Aldridge J, Kim HT, Hochberg EP, Hammerman P, Dube C, Attar E, Ballen KK, Dey BR, McAfee SL, Spitzer TR, Chen YB.Busulfan and cyclophosphamide (Bu/Cy) as a preparative regimen for autologous stem cell transplantation in patients with non-Hodg
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• Delaney M,Cutler CS,Haspel RL,Yeap BY,McAfee SL,Dey BR,Attar E,Kao G,Alyea EP,Koreth J,Ho VT,Saidman S,Liney D,Sese D,Soiffer RJ,Spitzer TR,Antin JH,Ballen KK.High-resolution HLA matching in double-umbilical-cord-blood reduced-intensity transplantation in
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• Yusuf RZ, Dey B, Yeap BY, McAfee S, Attar E, Sepe PS, Dube C, Spitzer TR, Ballen KK.Autologous SCT with a dose-reduced BU and CY regimen in older patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.Bone Marrow Transplant. 2009 Jan;43(1):37-42.
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• Ting DT, Spitzer TR, Chaudhary A, Muzikansky A, Colby C, Power K, McAfee S, Ballen K, Attar E, Saidman SL, Preffer F, Sykes M, Dey BR.Clinical outcomes of late rather than early full-donor chimerism in patients with advanced lymphomas receiving nonmyeloab
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• Ballen KK,King RJ,Chitphakdithai P,Bolan CD Jr,Agura E,Hartzman RJ,Kernan NA.The national marrow donor program 20 years of unrelated donor hematopoietic cell transplantation.Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2008 Sep;14(9 Suppl):2-7.
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• Karanes C,Nelson GO,Chitphakdithai P,Agura E,Ballen KK,Bolan CD,Porter DL,Uberti JP,King RJ,Confer DL.Twenty years of unrelated donor hematopoietic cell transplantation for adult recipients facilitated by the National Marrow Donor Program.Biol Blood Marro
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• Haspel RL, Kao G, Yeap BY, Cutler C, Soiffer RJ, Alyea EP, Ho VT, Koreth J, Dey BR, McAfee SL, Attar EC, Spitzer T, Antin JH, Ballen KK.Preinfusion variables predict the predominant unit in the setting of reduced-intensity double cord blood transplantatio
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• Attar EC, De Angelo DJ, Supko JG, D'Amato F, Zahrieh D, Sirulnik A, Wadleigh M, Ballen KK, McAfee S, Miller KB, Levine J, Galinsky I, Trehu EG, Schenkein D, Neuberg D, Stone RM, Amrein PC.Phase I and pharmacokinetic study of bortezomib in combination
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• Shaffer J, Villard J, Means TK, Alexander S, Dombkowski D, Dey BR, McAfee S, Ballen KK, Saidman S, Preffer FI, Sachs DH, Spitzer TR, Sykes M.Regulatory T-cell recovery in recipients of haploidentical nonmyeloablative hematopoietic cell transplantation wit
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• Ballen KK, Shpall EJ, Avigan D, Yeap BY, Fisher DC, McDermott K, Dey BR, Attar E, McAfee S, Konopleva M, Antin JH, Spitzer TR.Phase I trial of parathyroid hormone to facilitate stem cell mobilization.Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2007 Jul;13(7):838-43.
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• Giralt S, Logan B, Rizzo D, Zhang MJ, Ballen K, Emmanouilides C, Nath R, Parker P, Porter D, Sandmaier B, Waller EK, Barker J, Pavletic S, Weisdorf D.Reduced-intensity conditioning for unrelated donor progenitor cell transplantation: long-term follow-up o
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• Dey BR, Shaffer J, Yee AJ, McAfee S, Caron M, Power K, Ting DT, Colby C, Preffer F, Ballen K, Attar E, Saidman S, Tarbell N, Sachs D, Sykes M, Spitzer TR.Comparison of outcomes after transplantation of peripheral blood stem cells versus bone marrow follow
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• Ballen K.Targeting the stem cell niche: squeezing blood from bones.Bone Marrow Transplant. 2007 Jun;39(11):655-60. Review.
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• Haspel RL, Ballen KK.Double cord blood transplants: filling a niche?.Stem Cell Rev. 2006;2(2):81-6. Review.
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• Ballen KK, Spitzer TR, Yeap BY, McAfee S, Dey BR, Attar E, Haspel R, Kao G, Liney D, Alyea E, Lee S, Cutler C, Ho V, Soiffer R, Antin JH.Double unrelated reduced-intensity umbilical cord blood transplantation in adults.Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2007 J
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• Anagnostopoulos A, Hari PN, Pérez WS, Ballen K, Bashey A, Bredeson CN, Freytes CO, Gale RP, Gertz MA, Gibson J, Goldschmidt H, Lazarus HM, McCarthy PL, Reece DE, Vesole DH, Giralt SA.Autologous or Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation in Patients with Wald
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• Gold J, Valinski HM, Hanks AN, Ballen KK, Hsieh CC, Becker PS.Adhesion receptor expression by CD34+ cells from peripheral blood or bone marrow grafts: correlation with time to engraftment.Exp Hematol. 2006 May;34(5):680-7.
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• Ballen KK, Colvin G, Dey BR, Porter D, Westervelt P, Spitzer TR, Quesenberry PJ.Cellular immune therapy for refractory cancers: novel therapeutic strategies.Exp Hematol. 2005 Dec;33(12):1427-35.
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• Pavletic SZ, Khouri IF, Haagenson M, King RJ, Bierman PJ, Bishop MR, Carston M, Giralt S, Molina A, Copelan EA, Ringdén O, Roy V, Ballen K, Adkins DR, McCarthy P, Weisdorf D, Montserrat E, Anasetti C.Unrelated donor marrow transplantation for B-cell chron
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• Ballen KK, King R, Carston M, Kollman C, Nelson G, Lim S, Reece D, Giralt S, Vesole DH.Outcome of unrelated transplants in patients with multiple myeloma.Bone Marrow Transplant. 2005 Apr;35(7):675-81.
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• Ballen KK.New trends in umbilical cord blood transplantation.Blood. 2005 May 15;105(10):3786-92.
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• Ballen KK, Hasserjian RP.Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 2-2005. A 39-year-old woman with headache, stiff neck, and photophobia.N Engl J Med. 2005 Jan 20;352(3):274-83.
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• Ballen KK, Becker PS, Yeap BY, Matthews B, Henry DH, Ford PA.Autologous stem-cell transplantation can be performed safely without the use of blood-product support.J Clin Oncol. 2004 Oct 15;22(20):4087-94.
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• Ballen KK, Kurtzberg J, Lane TA, Lindgren BR, Miller JP, Nagan D, Newman B, Rupp N, Haley NR.Racial diversity with high nucleated cell counts and CD34 counts achieved in a national network of cord blood banks.Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2004 Apr;10(4):2
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