Blood & Marrow Transplantation for Children: overview

Bone marrow transplantation is an effective method of treating diseases of the blood system, congenital and acquired immunodeficiencies, autoimmune diseases of the nervous system and connective tissue, as well as certain forms of malignancies in children and adults. For many patients, transplantation gave a chance to get rid of a terrible illness. Transplantation allows not only to obtain long-term and sustained remissions of the disease, when the traditional treatment is powerless, but in a number of diseases completely cure the serious disease.

The leading Israeli clinic Tel Aviv Medical Clinic is approached by thousands of patients from around the world. Our doctors have all the necessary skills and knowledge to carry out organ transplantation. We use modern equipment and unique methods of therapy. Our employees annually undergo special training and know how to establish friendly contact with the child. In our clinic, children receive effective and timely care. They feel the sensitivity, attention and professionalism of our doctors. In the specialized center for support of parents and children you can get the help of a psychologist, speech therapist, as well as take a rehabilitation course. Having a unique experience in treating babies allows our specialists to work real miracles and rid them of severe forms of diseases.

Types of procedure

The technology of carrying out bone marrow or hematopoietic stem cells transplantation of peripheral blood involves intravenous introduction into the patient’s body previously taken from the donor or the patient himself and specially treated suspension of bone marrow or hematopoietic stem cells of peripheral blood. It is much less common, mainly in children, to use hematopoietic stem cells of umbilical cord blood. As a rule, the transplantation is preceded by intensive chemotherapy, the main purpose of which is to maximize the reduction of tumor cells and cells of the immune system.

Depending on the source of the transplanted cells, the following are isolated:

• Allogeneic bone marrow/peripheral blood stem hematopoietic cell transplantation.
• Autologous bone marrow/peripheral blood stem hematopoietic cell transplantation – the source of stem cells or bone marrow is the patient himself.
• Syngene bone marrow/peripheral blood stem hematopoietic cell transplantation, which is a type of allogeneic transplantation. The donor for syngene transplantation is the monozygous (genetically similar) twin of the patient.