Medical
Specialties
Medicine
- Hematology
(Blood Diseases) |
The
Section of Hematology provides outpatient diagnostic, therapeutic,
and consultative care to patients with hematologic or oncologic
(cancerous) diseases.
Asian
Hospital and Medical Center has performed the most number
of Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) procedures
in the Philippines.
BMT
is a hematological medical procedure that involves stem
cell transplantation. The stem cells are transfused into
a patient after his or her own unhealthy bone marrow has
been eliminated. Bone marrow is the tissue in which most
blood cells (red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets)
are made by the body. Transplantation may be autologous
(the patient's own marrow saved earlier), allogeneic (marrow
from someone else), or syngeneic (marrow from an identical
twin).
Prior
to the transfusion, the patient receives high-dose chemotherapy
to eradicate his/her defective or cancerous cells. Then,
the stem cells are infused—much like a blood transfusion—and
find their way to the bone marrow, where they “anchor
and divide”, a process doctors call homing. It takes
two weeks for the donor stem cells “to take”
(engraft). The patient is required to stay in the hospital
for six weeks.
BMT
can cure both cancerous and non-cancerous blood disorders.
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