Bone marrow transplantation is a procedure in which stem cells are deposited into a patient whose bone marrow has been damaged due to receive chemotherapy or radiation. There are three types of bone marrow transplantation: allogeneic transplantation, autologous transplantation and transplantation of stem cells from the umbilical cord.
Allogeneic
Allogeneic transplantation is when a donor donates stem cells genetically matched to the patient for transplant from a matched donor or unrelated.
Autologous
Autologous transplantation is when the patient is extracted stem cells before receiving invasive treatment and is preserved stem cells transplanted later.
Transplant from the umbilical cord
Transplantation of umbilical cord blood to be drawn in blood and umbilical cord stem cells are preserved for transplant when the patient may need.
What is?
Bone marrow transplantation is indicated for patients diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, thalassemia, sickle cell anemia, aplastic anemia, and severe immunodeficiency syndromes, cancers that occur in solid tumors such as breast and ovarian cancer.
After transplantation may be given the following complications: graft rejection, infection, premature menopause, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, severe infections, anemia, graft versus host disease, cataracts and more.
The patient may become four to six weeks on the transplant unit, to avoid exposure to viral diseases or infections.
After the patient is transplanted it will take a careful control of the blood. It is likely that the patient may need multiple blood transfusions. You will be given antibiotics, antiviral and antifungal in order to prevent or fight infection. It may be that given medication against GVHD.
The prognosis of a successful transplant involves such factors as patient’s genetic characteristics, age, type of transplant received, health status, type of illness you have, what type of chemotherapy or radiation therapy before transplantation received, and type of complications that the patient had post-transplant among others.
Medical advances have made bone marrow transplantation is used more frequently and increase the rate of diseases that are treatable.
The success of this type of transplantation is highly dependent on the care, control and monitoring of the patient after being treated.