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Interpret the results below.A 64-year-old patient received a SCT in March.Two weeks after the transplant, the physician ordered a routine blood count.The patient's ANC is 12 x109/L and his platelet count is 65 x 109/L.Chimerism studies were performed six months after his transplant using VNTR polymorphisms, which indicated a partial chimerism.What does this mean for the patient?


A) The patient achieved short-term and long-term engraftment.
B) The patient achieved long-term engraftment, but not short-term engraftment.
C) The patient achieved short-term engraftment, but results are indeterminate in the long term.
D) The patient did not achieve engraftment at all.

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