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Can a bone marrow transplant cure beta thalassemia?

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HEMATOPOIETIC CELL TRANSPLANTATION. Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is the only treatment that offers a potential cure for thalassemia at this time. read more

The main cure available today for Thalassemia is Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT) from compatible donor (a matching sibling or a matched unrelated donor from a bank),invented in the 1980’s by Prof. Guido Lucarelli or BMT from haploidentical mother to child using protocol 30 invented by Dr. Pietro Sodani. read more

hematopoietic cell transplantation Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is the only treatment that offers a potential cure for thalassemia at this time. HCT relies on high-dose chemotherapy to eliminate thalassemia-producing cells in the marrow and replaces them with healthy donor cells from bone marrow or umbilical cord blood, usually taken from a human-leukocyte antigen (HLA) match: an identical sibling. read more

Many advanced countries like England offer antenatal thalassemia screening blood test for all pregnant ladies. We need to adopt universal thalassemia screening in all pregnant ladies to predict risk in newborn and adopt antenatal diagnosis if required. Early referral for Bone Marrow Transplant, which is the only option to cure this. read more

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