bone marrow transplant
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What is Bone Marrow?
The spongy tissue in the cavities of the bones is known as the bone marrow.
It acts as the blood cell factory releasing blood cells when it is required.It consists of Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells and Platelets
How does bone marrow helps us?
Red blood cells in the marrow carries oxygen to the cells
Platelets help prevent bleeding and aid in clotting of blood.
Granulocytes and macrophages fight infections from bacteria, fungi, and other parasites. They also remove dead cells and remodel tissue and bones.
B-lymphocytes produce antibodies while T-lymphocytes can directly kill or isolate invading cells.
Red Blood Corpuscles live for around 170 days and need to be replenished continuously. An average human requires approximately one hundred billion new hematopoietic cells each day produced by the Hematopoietic Stem Cells (HSCs)
Need for Bone Marrow TransplantVarious illnesses and treatments can destroy the bone marrow leaving the
person unable to make the new blood cells needed to fight infection and recover. Damaged or diseased stem cells can make too few blood cells, too few immune cells, or too many abnormal cells. Any of these problems can cause the body to not have enough normal red blood cells, white blood cells, or platelets.
There are a number of diseases affecting the bone marrow like:
1) Leukaemia – a cancer of the blood that starts in the bone marrow2) Reticulum cell sarcoma of bone - a cancerous tumor of the bone marrow,
occurring more often in males than in females3) Aplastic anaemia - Here a person stops making blood.4) Defective immune system - Some children are born with a defective immune
system and are unable to fight disease. Bone Marrow transplant becomes the only way to cure the disease.
Types of Bone Marrow Transplant
Here stem cells are removed from the patient before high-
dose chemotherapy or radiation treatment. After chemotherapy your stems cells are put back in your
body to make (regenerate) normal blood cells
Stem cells are removed from a newborn baby's umbilical cord right after birth. The stem cells
are frozen and stored until they are needed for a
transplant. These cells are very immature so there is less
of a need for matching.
AllogeneicTransplants
Umbilical cord blood
transplant
Autologous Transplants
Stem cells are removed from another person, called a donor.
Donor's genes must at least partly match your genes, which
are decided through special blood tests. Brother, sister, parents, children are most likely to be a good match.
Stem Cells are entered into the blood stream through a tube called Central Venous catheter, just like getting a blood transfusion.
. The stem cells travel through the blood into the bone marrow.
How can the Donor Cells be collected?
Bone marrow harvest
Bone marrow is removed from the back of both hip
bones as the patient is asleep and pain free during
that time
Donor given 5 days of shots. Stem cells are
moved from bone marrow to blood. Blood is them removed from donor through IV Line
in a vein.
Leukapheresis
The part of white blood cells that contains stem cells is then
separated in a machine and removed to be later given to the recipient. The red blood cells are
returned to the donor.
Infection
Low platelets and low red blood cells
Pain
Fluid overload
Organ damage
Graft failure
Graft-versus-host disease
Respiratory distress
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