Is it Safe To Undergo a Bone Marrow Transplant?

Posted by Shreya Dey on December 24th, 2020

In India the bone marrow transplant has a 80% success rate with patients who suffer from blood disorders or inherited blood disorders. It has a 20% survival rate for patients suffering from malignant blood diseases such as blood cancers. BMT specialists always recommend bone marrow transplant to the patients because sometimes, it is the only procedure that can help the patient sustain life.

Bone marrow transplant is a specialised treatment plan for patients who have extremely rare stem cell diseases.

These diseases include - Leukemias Lymphomes Bone marrow failures Inherited immune system disorders Hemoglobinopathies Inherited metabolic diseases Myelodysplastic syndromes Multiple myeloma

If untreated, the survival rate for these blood diseases is low. Bone marrow transplant is the common treatment option for all these diseases. During transplant, a patient undergoes chemotherapy (chemo) with or without radiation. This chemo destroys the unhealthy blood-forming cells and marrow. Then, healthy cells are transmitted in the BMT surgery. The healthy cells enter the bloodstream. These cells travel to the patient's marrow. From there they start to grow and make healthy red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.

Only a BMT specialist can perform the transplant. It also requires specific machinery and a particular environment in which the procedure to clean blood can take place.

Only a trusted BMT specialist should be consulted at a renowned bone marrow transplant hospital. The BMT specialist will guide you about the most suitable and safest type of transplant for you out of the options available. If the patient undergoes autologous bone marrow transplant, then a donor for bone marrow transplant is not required. The patient’s own blood stem cells are sufficient to harvest and carry out the procedure. The other type of bone marrow transplant available is allogeneic bone marrow transplant. This type of transplant requires a donor to harvest blood stem cells for bone marrow transplant. Donors can be identical twin(s), siblings, parents, family members and unrelated matched donors from bone marrow transplant hospital donors registry.

Are you looking for a trusted BMT specialist in Faridabad? Feel free to contact Sarvodaya hospital, a renowned bone marrow transplant hospital in Faridabad.