Sentences with phrase «received donor stem»

The disease can occur in patients who have received donor stem cells or immune.

Not exact matches

In November the Lancet published the results of an international research project whereby a Colombian lady received a new trachea (windpipe) which had been grown from a donor trachea (as it were, a «scaffold») repopulated with stem cells, for the very first time, from the patient's own body.

In May 2006, Eggan's lab received approval from Harvard to seek healthy human eggs from female donors, a first step toward using research cloning to create new stem cell lines.

GVHD affects up to half of the more than 30,000 people worldwide each year who receive an immune system transplanted from a donor, as either bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cells.

Of these 34 patients, 13 (38 %) have remained in remission for five years, and an additional two patients whose disease did not progress after BV went on to achieve remission after receiving allogeneic stem cell transplant (in which healthy stem cells are taken from a donor and administered to the patient).

But for blood cancer patients who receive donor hematopoietic stem cell transplants as part of their treatment, graft - versus - host disease (GVHD) often hampers their recovery.

Patients receive one of two types of stem cell - based transplants: autologous, in which a patient donates and receives back his / her own stem cells; or allogeneic, in which bone marrow - derived stem cells come from a related or unrelated donor whose human leukocyte antigens (HLA) are genetically matched with those of a patient.

Treatments are limited — some patients receive transplants of stem cells found in bone marrow from which blood cells develop, but donors are hard to come by and the procedure holds risky complications for recipients.

Transplants types are categorized by the source of the donor: Autologous transplants: Patients receive their own stem cells.

No matter how the stem cells are harvested, the recipient is first treated with high - dose anticancer drugs and / or radiation, and then receives the donor cells through an intravenous infusion.