Bone marrow transplants are accompanied by serious and life-threatening risks. Furthermore, they are not always an absolute assurance of a cure for the underlying ailment; a disease may recur in the future.
Autologous bone marrow transplant
An autologous bone marrow transplant uses the patient's own bone marrow. The bone marrow is collected from the patient, stored, and later reinfused after high-dose chemotherapy or radiation therapy. This type of transplant helps restore the patient's immune system.
Autologous = own marrow Allogeneic = transplant from a related (or tissue matched) donor. Syngeneic = transplant from an identical twin.
allogenic
The term for bone marrow from a close relative is "allogeneic bone marrow transplant."
You have to get a bone marrow transplant.
In a bone marrow transplant, the bone marrow used typically comes from a donor who matches the recipient's tissue type. This matching helps reduce the risk of rejection. The bone marrow is usually harvested from the donor's hip bones using a needle.
1968 at the University of Minnesota by Robert A. Good
The first successful bone marrow transplant was in 1973.
A bone marrow transplant can change a person's blood type to that of the donor's. This is because the bone marrow produces blood cells, including red blood cells that determine blood type. After a transplant, the new bone marrow starts producing blood cells with the donor's blood type.
Either a bone marrow or a stem cell transplant (although these days most stem cell transplants are obtained from blood).
There are three types of bone marrow transplant procedure. One of the three is called an Autologous bone marrow transplant. With an Autologous bone marrow procedure, doctors take the persons own bone marrow and freeze it before chemo then reintroduce the marrow into red blood cells after chemo or radiation. The second type is Allogeneic. In an Allogeneic marrow procedure the marrow is taken from a matching marrow donor. The third type is called Umbilical cord blood transplant. With an umbilical cord blood transplant, there can be a wider variety of donor as the cells are still considered immature.