DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Stem cell transplantation
Stem cell treatments
Stem cell treatments are a type of intervention strategy that introduces new cells into damaged tissue in order to treat disease or injury. Many medical researchers believe that stem cell treatments have the potential to change the face of human disease and alleviate suffering. The ability of stem cells to self-renew and give rise to subsequent generations with variable degrees of differentiation capacities, offers significant potential for generation of tissues that can potentially replace diseased and damaged areas in the body, with minimal risk of rejection and side effects...
Stem cell transplantation - List of case studies
- Peripheral T-cell lymphoma
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of the T lineage. The apparent diagnosis: Peripheral T Cell Lymphoma (PTCL). The patient has been offered to start chemotherapy. ... respond: Should we proceed with autologous bone marrow (stem cell) transplantation ? I tend to answer positively, but this can be ...
- Stage 4 Neuroblastoma – additional opinion
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and a half months, followed by collection of peripheral stem cells, in sight of a high dose treatment followed by re-infusion of the ... end of the induction and will hopefully proceed to stem cell harvest, surgery, autologous bone marrow transplantation, local ...
- Portosystemic Encephalopathy in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
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a liver transplant is possible? Is it possible to use the stem cells? Medical Background: ... (bulky) with histological examination : Non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphoma diffuse big cells . Bulky stage IIIA ( weight loss 20 kg ...
- MDS – Myelodysplastic Syndrome
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injections, lenalidomide, Vidaza or Dacogen therapy, or stem cell transplantation. questions: ...
- Treatments
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A ABO match ABO-incompatible (ABOI) renal transplantation ABOI renal transplants ABOI transplantation ABOI ... Allogeneic HSCT Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HSCT) Allogeneic stem cell transplant Allogeneic transplantation Allogeneic ...
- Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), with kariotype del(11)q(11)
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disease starts to progress it is a good therapy. 5) Stem cell transplantation can be undertaken, although at the age of 74, the ...
- Recurrent metastases in malignant tumor of left forearm
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with a lesion on his left forearm was diagnosed with small cell malignant neoplasm. It was thought that he had a malignant myoepithelioma ... An alternative may be the use of autologous stem cell transplantation . It appears that the patient has no bone ...
- IgG Multiple Myeloma
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in the M-component. He received melphalan-based autologous stem cell transplantation, which was complicated by reversible respiratory failure. ...
- Multiple Myeloma (MM) and Cardiomyopathy
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by high-dose cyclophosphamide (HDC) and autologous stem cell transplantation. The patient's low platelet count is of concern. ...
- Multiple myeloma with renal involvement, bone lesions and Neuropathy
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including a bone biopsy which showed medullary plasma cell infiltration amounting to 40%. A hematology visit was performed by ... and continue only with Dexamethasone and plan a stem cell harvest in view of an autologous transplant. In October 2007 ...