Umbilical Cord Blood: Benefits of Reduced Intensity Transplants
This type of stem cell transplantation is more appropriate to treat certain patients suffering from specific diseases. Patients who typically benefit from this procedure are those whose systems can not tolerate standard transplantation procedures, among which may include the following:
- Elderly.
- Patients who have weakened bodies, including those with heart disease or kidney problems or whose organs have been damaged by previous treatments or infections.
- Patients who have undergone a transplant or more than one.
- Patients with immune system deficiencies or failure of the bone marrow as a result of congenital neutropenia, thrombocytopenia or aplastic anemia.
- Patients who have experienced pre-leukemia syndrome, such as myelodysplastic syndrome and monosomy 7.
- Patients who are going through the first stage of remission of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or suffering from chronic myeloid leukemia (CML).
- Patients suffering from metabolic disorders such as Hurler disease, disease or metachromatic leukodystrophy adrenal.
- Patients suffering from acute leukemia.
- Other patients who can not tolerate a standard procedure to be developing a disease, or failure to achieve optimum health.
Diseases Treated
Currently, stem cell transplantation reduced intensity may help to treat different diseases, among which include:
- Chronic or acute myelogenous leukemia.
- Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
- Multiple myeloma.
- Renal cell cancer.
It is best to talk with your health care professional or doctor who is taking care about transplants and options available to treat your particular case.