City doctors performed the first successful autologous bone marrow transplantation at a newly established Center in BHU under the guidance of Dr. Rahul Bhargava, Director of Haematology & Bone Marrow Transplant, FMRI, Gurugram.
Bone marrow transplant and stem cell research center at Banaras Hindu University has established has come to functional, the doctors successfully performed the very first complex treatment autologous bone marrow transplantation on a lady with multiple myeloma a type of blood cancer recently. BMT-SCR is equipped of 12 beds with all modern facilities including HEPA filtered air and latest equipment’s. At the center, stem cells are gathered within the blood donor room using an apheresis machine. Over the course of one to five days, blood is taken out of a vein and placed through the device, which collects the stem cells. The alternative elements of the blood are then returned on your body. Most of the people don’t have side effects from blood collection and can return to their regular activities. The stem cells are cryopreserved (frozen) till they’re given back to you.
Bone marrow transplant and stem cell research center at Banaras Hindu University is a lifesaving treatment for form of sicknesses including blood cancers like leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma and so on, as well as benign issues like aplastic anemia and Thalassemia. It is an 11 bedded, HEPA filtered transplant unit equipped with the latest equipment for flow cytometry for patients care and research and X-ray based blood irradiators, first of its kind inside the country that is capable of irradiation of blood and its products. The center also has 3 stem cellular research labs at the side of a devoted team of renowned transplant specialists and hemato – oncologists and trained transplant nursing staff. Transplant is a pricey treatment, calls for lot of resources but in here the cost of a transplant has been very affordable as compared to other hospitals because the financial liability of the whole treatment has been met out from the Prime Minister’s fund. Many of our patients come from overseas and get best treatment / results because the cost provided here is one tenth of any private hospital. Our specialized blood bank and laboratory offerings are capable to coping with all needs from BMT unit.
“I’m pleased to announce that the first ever autologous bone marrow transplantation has been successful executed on a lady patient at BMT-SRC by Dr. Kailash Kumar Gupta and his team,” said BHU vice chancellor Prof Rakesh Bhatnagar. The VC stated that the first bone marrow transplantation was achieved under the guidance of Dr. Rahul Bhargava from fortis memorial research institute, Gurugram. The center plans of performing 50-60 bone marrow transplantation yearly. In an autologous transplant, your very own blood-forming stem cells are collected. You’re then handled with high doses of chemotherapy. The high-dose treatment kills the cancer cells, but it also gets rid of the blood-generating cells which can be left on your bone marrow. Later on, the gathered stem cells are put again into your bloodstream, allowing the bone marrow to provide new blood cells.
He also said that the autologous bone marrow transplantation is significant due to the fact in this process there’s no need of a donor, as an alternative the bone marrow of the patient is being used. VC said, “hopefully we will be able to provide treatment to those diseases which do not have cure, every year around 20,000 bone marrow transplantation in the need in the country out of which around only 10% have succeed . Since the functioning of BMT—SRC of BHU have been proven boon to people in Up district earlier who had to go to Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Vellore for their advanced medical treatment and this will help hospital as well by providing quality medical services for treatment of more serious disease through hematopoietic stem cell.”
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