Hospital claims 50 successful bone marrow transplants

The Manipal Hospital in the city has reached a milestone of performing 50 successful bone marrow transplants saving the lives of children and adults, the hospital’s consultant medical oncologist and B

The Manipal Hospital in the city has reached a milestone of performing 50 successful bone marrow transplants saving the lives of children and adults, the hospital’s consultant medical oncologist and BMT physician Dr. G. Krishna Reddy has said.

Addressing the media on Tuesday, Dr. Krishna Reddy said the hospital performed the first autologous stem cell transplant in 2009 and then went on to perform 50 transplants.

Consultant bone marrow transplant physician Dr. Madhav Danthala said both autologous and allogeneic stem cell transplants were performed on patients for a wide range of diseases including multiple myeloma, lymphomas, acute lymphoblastic leukaemias, APML, aplastic anaemia, neuroblastoma, Wilm’s tumour and Ewing sarcoma.