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Cancer Bone Marrow Transplant - Articles
Kidney Transplant in a Bone Marrow Transplant Patient
by
Matt S.
Posted
Thu 22 May 2008 12:00am
Interesting transplant case
A 35 year old man with a history of acute myelogenous leukemia, status post a bone marrow transplant from his sister eight years ago and now... is at the point where his GFR is <15 and he is starting to lose weight.
He undergoes a living related kidney transplant, from his sister--the same sister who was the bone marrow donor
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Bone Marrow Transplants Undergo Quiet Revolution
by
David Granovsky
Posted
Fri 04 Jun 2010 12:00am
WASHINGTON (May 11, 2010)–Scientists are seeking a new approach in the use of bone marrow transplants as the procedure undergoes a quiet revolution....
If that succeeds, bone marrow can eventually be used to treat a variety of diseases and ultimately marrow transplants can be used even when donors aren’t good genetic matches.
via Bone
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Bone Marrow Transplant
by
Italianwarrior
Posted
Tue 10 Nov 2009 8:08pm
2 Comments
My name is Teri and my husband has Acute Myelogenous Leukemia. He will be spending his 43rd birthday in the hospital. He had a bone marrow transplant on October 9. He's had some complications since the BMT like fevers, pneumonia, Graft vs. Host and what seems like I list that goes on forever. I spend most of my time at his bedside. It gets a little
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Bone Marrow Transplant: A Cure For AIDS?
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Prudence ..
Posted
Mon 24 Nov 2008 7:59am
It was reported on TIME magazine that a Berlin hematologist, Gero Huetter, has claimed that he had cured an HIV infection in a 42-year old man through bone marrow transplant he had performed at Berlin’s Charité hospital two years ago. The patient had been suffering from advance stage leukemia and HIV and, after transplant of bone marrow from
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Alka Tiwari: Give me a bone marrow transplant or give me death
by
Thaddeus Pope
Posted
Tue 04 Oct 2011 11:18pm
On September 30th, Alka Tiwari filed a complaint in the courts of the Indian state Uttar Pradesh asking the government either (1) to provide funds for her treatment or (2) to allow physicians to administer a “poisonous injection” to get rid of the unbearable pain.
This is certainly not the profile of the typical patient utilizing the ...
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