What is the risk to the recipient from a bone marrow transplant?

What is the risk to the recipient from a bone marrow transplant?

If you receive a transplant that uses stem cells from a donor (allogeneic transplant), you may be at risk of developing graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). This condition occurs when the donor stem cells that make up your new immune system see your body’s tissues and organs as something foreign and attack them.

What is the most likely complication of bone marrow transplantation in the pediatric patient with cancer?

Infections are likely in a child with severe bone marrow suppression. Bacterial infections are the most common. Viral, fungal and other infections can also occur. Some infections can develop later on, weeks to months after the transplant.

What conditions diseases would require bone marrow transplants?

The following diseases are the ones that most commonly benefit from bone marrow transplant:

• Leukemias.
• Severe aplastic anemia.
• Lymphomas.
• Multiple myeloma.
• Immune deficiency disorders.
• Some solid-tumor cancers (in rare circumstances)

What are the long term side effects of a bone marrow transplant?

Long-term side effects

• Infertility, meaning you cannot become pregnant or make a woman pregnant when you want to.
• Cataracts, an eye condition that causes cloudy vision.
• Sexual side effects and early menopause.
• Thyroid problems.
• Lung or bone damage.
• Another cancer.

Can minors donate bone marrow?

How old do you have to be to donate bone marrow? A person must be at least 18 to donate because donation is a medical procedure and the person must be able to give legal informed consent. Also, because it’s a voluntary procedure a guardian or parent can’t sign a release or give consent for someone under age 18.

Can you have a child with bone marrow?

Their offspring would always be daughters, though, because sperm made from a female cell would always carry an X instead of a Y chromosome. Weirder still, a woman could conceivably use sperm made from her bone marrow to inseminate her own eggs.

What causes someone to need a bone marrow transplant?

Some reasons for a bone marrow transplant include: aplastic anemia, which is a disorder in which the marrow stops making new blood cells. cancers that affect the marrow, such as leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma. damaged bone marrow due to chemotherapy.

What are the chances of dying from a heart transplant?

Risk of dying after a transplant Within one year of any transplant a small percentage of people die, about 3\% (three out of one hundred) in most units. However, this is no greater than the percentage that would have died if they had remained on dialysis. Long term survival depends very much on not getting heart problems and cancer.

What kind of cancer can develop after a stem cell transplant?

Acute leukemia is a type of cancer that can develop a few years after stem cell transplant. Another disorder of the bone marrow called myelodysplasia or myelodysplastic syndrome, in which the bone marrow makes defective blood cells, can also happen a few years after transplant.

What are the most common lung problems after lung transplantation?

Interstitial pneumonitis and other lung problems. Pneumonitis is a type of lung inflammation that’s most common in the first 100 days after transplant. But some lung problems can happen much later – even 2 or more years after transplant.

What are the possible complications of kidney transplantation?

The other main complications of transplantation are: 1. problems with the transplant kidney itself, such as rejection, or problems with the blood supply or urine drainage (see leaflet Transplant Rejection) 2. infections, such as urine infection or pneumonia, (see leaflet Infection after Kidney Transplant)