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BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT

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Bone Marrow
Bone marrow is the soft
spongy tissue that lies
within the hollow interior
of long bones. In adults,
marrow in large bones
produces new blood cells.
Bone marrow forms
around 4% of total body
weight (around 2.6 kg in a
healthy adult).
Types of bone marrow

There are two types of bone marrow
red marrow that is responsible for producing
red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets


yellow marrow consisting mainly of fat cells

Functions of bone marrow

Red blood cells (erythrocytes) carry oxygen to the
tissues

Platelets or thrombocytes (derived from
megakaryocytes) help prevent bleeding and aid in
clotting of blood.

Granulocytes (neutrophils, basophils and eosinophils)
and macrophages (collectively known as myeloid cells)
fight infections from bacteria, fungi, and other
parasites. They also remove dead cells and remodel
tissue and bones.

B-lymphocytes produce antibodies, while T-
lymphocytes can directly kill or isolate invading cells
What is Bone Marrow Transplant?
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A bone marrow or cord blood transplant is a process to
replace unhealthy bone marrow with healthy bone
marrow. Bone marrow transplants can be used to treat
patients with:

life-threatening blood cancers like leukemia
diseases which result in bone marrow failure like
aplastic anemia
other immune system or genetic diseases

How a bone marrow transplant works?

An autologous transplant is a way to treat cancer using
very high doses of chemotherapy that destroy the bone
marrow as a side effect. The autologous blood cells
replace the damaged marrow. This is how autologous
transplants are used to fight certain types of cancers such
as lymphoma.

An allogeneic transplant also treats cancers of the blood,
and offers the added benefit of using the donors immune
system to recognize and destroy cancer cells. Allogeneic
transplant is also used to treat some non-cancerous
diseases such as sickle cell anemia. In non-cancerous
diseases, the transplant replaces defective marrow cells
with the donors healthy cells.
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