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Bone Marrow Transplant
Alternate Names : Transplant - Bone Marrow
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Risks
The risks for any anesthesia are:
- reactions to medications
- problems breathing
Chemotherapy given prior to bone marrow transplant (conditioning) can cause significant toxicity, such as mouth sores, diarrhea, liver damage, or lung damage. While waiting for bone marrow to grow, the patient is at high risk for infection. The major problem with bone marrow transplants (when the marrow comes from a donor, not the patient) is graft-versus-host disease. The transplanted healthy bone marrow cells may attack the patient's cells as though they were foreign organisms. In this case, drugs to suppress the immune system must be taken, but this also decreases the body's ability to fight infections.
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• Definition
• Overview & Description
• Indications
• Expectations after Surgery
• Convalescence & Recovery
• Risks
• Pictures & Images
Topics that might be of interest to you Diseases & Conditions
• Graft-Versus-Host Disease
Tests & Exams
• Histocompatibility Antigens
Other Topics
• Chemotherapy
• Radiation Therapy
Review Date : 5/1/2003
Reviewed By : Ezra E. W. Cohen, M.D., Section of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.
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