Aceasta poveste este despre transplant de măduvă osoasă în India. Mukhtar, who is from Assela in Ethiopia, suffers from deadly aplastic anemia. He travels to India for his stem cell transplant. Read the entire story here.
Mukhtar
Mukhtar is a young, 19-year-old Ethiopian who is pursuing his pharmacy degree from a reputed university in Assela, Ethiopia. A tall and handsome boy who love playing football, reading books and having a strong family bond. He lives in Assela, Ethiopia with his parents, 3 brothers and a sister.
Mukhtar with his father and brother at New Delhi airport
Early Symptoms of Aplastic Anemia
Suddenly, one fine day, he realized that he was tiring quite often while playing. Also, he is becoming more susceptible to frequent infections. Initially, the family thought it to be a routine infection and did home-based traditional treatments. However, the events of fatigue, infection kept on increasing, and now it also has nose bleeds and urine bleeds sometimes. When these symptoms didn’t stop for a few days, his father decided to show him to a doctor in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, home to some of the best hospitals in Ethiopia.
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Hospital visit in Addis
They showed up at one of the best hospitals in Ethiopia and consulted a physician. The doctor ordered some tests to be performed. While Mukhtar and his father waited for results, his symptoms kept on increasing. The doctor started preliminary treatment of the infection in order to control it. However, fate was not on the side of Mukhtar, results of the tests were not encouraging, and he was diagnosed with anemie aplastica, a rare disorder that originates from bone marrow and completely destroys it, leaving the patient prone to very frequent infections.
News of aplastic anemia came as a big shock to the entire family. The doctor also advised them to immediately go for the only curative treatment, which is a bone marrow stem cell transplant.
Family and friends of Mukhtar started inquiring about bone marrow stem cell treatment in Ethiopia, and to their shock, they learned that there is no hospital or specialist available in Ethiopia for bone marrow transplants. There are two kinds of BMT: autologous BMT and allogenic BMT. In autologous BMT, self-bone marrow is used, while in allogenic BMT, a donor bone marrow is used for the transplant. Mukhtar was clearly a case of an allogenic marrow transplant.
Choosing India for stem cell transplant
Mukhtar started online search about bone marrow transplant in different countries. Rates differed in the US; a bone marrow transplant cost almost $ 5,000,000 USD, the same in Europe, it cost approximately $ 200,000 USD în Singapore, $ 150,000 in Turkey, and almost $ 75,000 USD. However, the cost of a bone marrow transplant in India was much lower than in these countries, it cost only 25,000–35,000 USD. Their obvious choice was India.
transplant de celule stem în India
For almost two decades, bone marrow transplants have been conducted in India. India is home to some of the best hospitals for bone marrow transplants in the world, with some of the best bone marrow transplant specialists.
Cost of stem cell transplant in India
Allogenic fully matched stem cell transplant: 20,000–25,000 USD.
Allogenic half matched stem cell transplant: $ 29000–35,000 USD.
Allogenic independent registry: $55,000–65,000 USD.
Autologous stem cell transplant: 19000-22000 USD.
Verifica : Costul transplantului de celule stem de măduvă osoasă în India
Best hospitals for bone marrow transplant in India
Here are the list of 10 best bone marrow transplant hospital in India –
1) BLK Super Specialty hospital, New Delhi
2) Artemis Hospital , Gurugram
3) Mazumdar Shaw cancer centre, Bangalore
4) Narayana Super specialty Hospital, Howrah
5) HCG Cancer Centre, Bangalore
6) HCG EKO Cancer Centre, Kolkata
7) American Oncology, Hyderabad
8) International Oncology, Noida
9) Dharamshila Cancer Hospital, Delhi
10) Medanta Medicity Hospital, Gurugram
Contact with CancerFax
A friend of Mukhtar, who had already undergone heart surgery in India, suggested he contact CancerFax, an award winning medical tour operator considered one among the best medical tour operator in India.
CancerFax is known for:
- Team of some of the best consultants.
- There is a large network of hospitals and cities to choose from.
- Amazing care and help.
- End-to-end services.
- Consultare online and price estimate within 24 hours of report posting.
- Personalized treatment plan.
- Free airport pick up and drop-off services.
- Immediate consultation, no waiting time.
- Local help for guest houses, hotels, and local SIM cards.
- Medical visa help.
Within 24 hours of sending all the medical reports, Mukhtar had multiple hospital options for his bone marrow transplant. He chose the best hospital for bone marrow transplants in India. He was immediately issued a medical visa, and he was ready to fly to Delhi from Addis. At New Delhi airport, he was picked up by Sandeep, a CancerFax representative.
Mukhtar presented with a bleeding nose, bleeding urine, and infection across the body. He was feeling fatigued and has not taken any food since the last 3 days. He was immediately taken to the hospital, and after quick registration formalities, he was shifted to the ward. Treatment for Mukhtar has already begun.
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Controlul infecției
Mukhtar’s infections was controlled with standard medicines and he was feeling much better after 2 days of admission in the ward. When patient is presented with lot of infections, it is always advised to control all the infection first and then go for bone marrow transplant procedure. After 4 days of admission in the ward and infection control, Mukhtar was ready for bone marrow transplant.
Chimioterapia
few sessions of chemotherapy is given to the patient before bone marrow transplant, basically to kill the cancer or bad cells. This is done in order to ensure when fresh cells enter the body, there isn’t any bad cells to counter good cells.
Donor Cells
Fresh cells to Mukhtar was donated by his 8-year-old younger brother, Mas Felmeta. His blood was extracted so that stem cells can be taken from the blood.
transplant
After extracting stem cells from Mas Felmeta blood, it were infused into the blood stream of Mukhtar and thus transplant was completed. Now we have to wait for engraftment to occur. Fortunately, Mukhtar got engrafted on the 8th day of transplant and on 20th day after transplant, he was ready to be discharged from the hospital.
The bone-marrow transplant was successful. Now Mukhtar is absolutely alright and hopefully will not have any infection.
As promised, we all went for site-seeing around Delhi.
Best doctors for stem cell transplant in India
Dr. Dharma Choudhary - Centrul de transplant de măduvă osoasă BLK, New Delhi is arguably India’s leading doctor for bone marrow stem cell transplants, with more than 2000 successful transplants to his credit. He is known for his successful career as a top BMT surgeon, Dr. Choudhary’s expertise in talasemie Bone Marrow Transplant, Thalassemia Stem Cell Transplant. Dr. Dharma Choudhary is the pioneer in India for his work in Allogenic Bone Marrow Transplant for Thalassemia Major and Aplastic Anemia during his period at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Delhi. Dr. Dharma Choudhary has made it to the list of top 10 Hematologists and Bone Marrow Transplant Specialist of this generation in India. Known for his High success rates in Bone Marrow Transplant, Dr. Dharma Choudhary is a lifelong member of the Indian Society of Hematology & Transfusion Medicine. He is also popular among international patients from different corners of the world mostly from Afghanistan, Iraq, Oman, Uzbekistan, Sudan, Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania.
Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Sharma is a practicing Hematologist with 19 years of experience. He is located in New Delhi. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Sharma practices at the BLK Super Specialty Hospital din New Delhi. Spitalul de specialitate BLK Super este situat la adresa 5, Radha Soami Satsang Rajendra Place, Pusa Road, New Delhi. Sanjeev Kumar Sharma este un membru stimat al membrului înregistrat al Societății Indiene de Hematologie și Transfuzie de Sânge (ISHTM), membru înregistrat al Asociației Medicale din Delhi (DMA) Membru înregistrat al Societății Indiene de Hematologie și Transfuzie a Sângelui (ISHTM), membru înregistrat al Asociației Medicale din Delhi DMA) și membru al Societății Indiene pentru Cercetarea Aterosclerozei (ISAR).
He pursued his MBBS in 1999 from University Of Delhi, Delhi. He completed his MD in 2006 from University Of Delhi, Delhi. He has also did his DM in 2012 from All India Institute Of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. Dr Sanjeev has been awarded with Best Citizen of India Award.
Dr. Revathi Raj este hematolog și medic pediatru în Spitalul Apollo, Teynampet, Chennai si are o experienta de 24 de ani in aceste domenii. Dr. Revathi Raj practică la Spitalul de Cancer de specialitate Apollo din Teynampet, Chennai și Spitalele pentru copii Apollo din Thousand Lights, Chennai. Ea a absolvit MBBS de la Universitatea Madras, Chenai, India în 1991, Diploma în Sănătatea Copilului (DCH) de la Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University (TNMGRMU) în 1993 și FRC.PATH.(UK) de la Royal College of Pathologist în 2008 Este membră a Asociației Medicale Indiane (IMA). Unele dintre serviciile oferite de medic sunt: Tratamentul eozinofiliei, Tratamentul durerilor de gât, Terapia de chelare, Biochimia și transfuzia de sânge etc. Dr. Revathi este creditat cu una dintre cele mai mari serii de transplanturi de măduvă osoasă din țară. Ea a tratat cu succes hemofilia și boala cu celule falciforme. Are interes de specialitate în tulburările de sânge la copii.
Dr. Sharat Damodar - Centrul de transplant de măduvă osoasă Narayana, Bangalore Dr. Sharat Damodar și-a terminat MBBS de la St. Johns Medical College, Bangalore și mai târziu și-a terminat doctoratul de la DNB College. În prezent, este vicepreședinte al Centrului Medical Mazumdar Shaw, Narayana Health City. Este un oncolog celebru care a efectuat peste 1000 de transplanturi de măduvă osoasă și celule stem și a câștigat, de asemenea, Premiul Președintelui pentru cel mai bun medic în 2015. Domeniul de expertiză al Dr. Sharat este transplantul de măduvă osoasă și celule stem, transplantul de sânge din cordonul ombilical și limfomul. Procedurile cheie efectuate de Dr. Sharat Damodar sunt transplantul de măduvă osoasă și celule stem, transplantul de sânge din cordonul ombilical, leucemia/limfomul. Dr. Sharat a efectuat peste 1000 de transplanturi de celule stem de măduvă osoasă cu succes în cariera sa până în prezent.
Dr. Ramaswamy NV at Aster Medcity, Kochi is a Hematologist with more than 18 years of experience, Dr. Ramaswamy is an expert in management of malignant and non-malignant diseases of the blood, in patients of all ages. His areas of special interest are hemato oncology and stem cell transplant. Dr. Ramaswamy is expert in bone marrow stem cell transplant, cancerul de prostată, lung cancer, stomach cancer, colon cancer, & blood related disorders. He is specially interested in immunosuppressive drugs, targeted therapy, limfomul lui Hodgkin, myeloma, lymphoma, strocytoma, osteosarcoma, stereotactic radiosurgery, blood cancer, leukemia, sickle-cell anemia, germ cell tumour (GCT), thalassemia, non hodgkin lymphoma, and all forms, type and stages of cancer.
Dr. Pawan Kumar Singh - Artemis, Gurugram, Delhi (NCR) is having experience of performing more than 300 bone marrow transplants (including Autologous/Allogenic/Haplo/MUD) for both malignant and non-malignant blood disorders including thalassemia and aplastic anaemia. Done successful Haplo BMT for SCID in an 8 months old child. Successfully done MFD BMT for HLH in a 2 yr old child. Individually set up BMT unit at Jaypee Hospital and made SOPs for each and every important steps for successfully running the BMT unit. Made BMT UNIT at Jaypee hospital the transplant centre for MUD transplant and got PBSC product from national (Datri) and international registry (DKMS). Performed 50 BMTs in last 18 months at Jaypee hospital (MSD/MFD-20; Haplo-6; Auto-2 and MUD-4).
Dr Joydeep Chakrabartty – Kolkata completed his MBBS from a renowned university in Calcutta and then went to the United Kingdom for his post graduate studies. He went on to obtain the MRCP (UK) and FRC PATH (UK), and FRCP (Glasgow) credentials during the course of his career. The latter being awarded for his role in leading and establishing services in Medicine. He has a special interest in the areas of Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT), especially mis-matched high end transplants for all conditions especially Leucemii acute. He has worked in reputed institutes in the UK including St Bartholomews Hospital and in the prestigious Bone Marrow Transplant Fellowship at The Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital, London.
Dr. Joydeep Chakrabartty a lucrat de mulți ani în Medicină și în unități de îngrijire critică reputate înainte de a începe Hematologie. El a întâlnit și a gestionat nu numai toate urgențele și condițiile hematologice, dar expunerea anterioară la medicina generală și la UTI îi oferă avantaj în gestionarea pacienților foarte bolnavi, adică pacienții supuși unui transplant de măduvă osoasă, leucemie acută etc. De asemenea, este foarte competent în partea diagnosticului de laborator. a bolilor hematologice. La întoarcerea sa, dr. Chakrabartty a ajutat la formarea și funcționarea cu succes a multor departamente de transplant de măduvă osoasă din întreaga țară. Dr. Joydeep Chakrabartty a scris multe articole pentru reviste de top și a scris, de asemenea, capitole în manuale.
Dr. Radheshyam Naik at Bangalore este pionierul în domeniul oncologiei medicale cu peste 25 de ani de experiență academică puternică în domeniul său. A primit pregătire avansată de la instituțiile de top din lume, inclusiv MD Anderson Cancer Institute, SUA, Școala Internațională pentru Îngrijirea Cancerului, Oxford, Marea Britanie, Universitatea din New South Wales, Australia, pentru a numi doar câteva.
Considerat ca un oncolog eminent și având experiență în a vizita spitale de cancer renumite din întreaga lume, Dr. Radheshyam a avut o carieră academică excelentă în gestionarea tuturor tipurilor de cancer și afecțiuni hematologice, cu mai multe publicații evaluate de colegi în reviste de top. El este pionier în desfășurarea diferitelor studii de droguri efectuate a peste 50 de medicamente pentru chimioterapie în studii naționale și internaționale.
Are un interes special în programul de transplant de măduvă osoasă și, de asemenea, a urmat cursuri avansate la Universitatea Hadassah, Israel; Centrul medical Detroit, Spitalul New York SUA, Centrul medical Cornell și la Spitalul Harper, Michigan, SUA.
Dr. Radheshyam a contribuit major la dezvoltarea domeniului hematologiei și al transplantului de măduvă osoasă în Karnataka. El a efectuat prima chimioterapie intra-arterială prin portul din Karnataka și, de asemenea, este creditat pentru efectuarea primului transplant de măduvă osoasă în Karnataka.
Dr. Shrinath Kshirsagar este hematolog / hemato-oncolog și medic transplant de măduvă osoasă cu sediul în Mumbai. Are o experiență de peste 8 ani în acest domeniu. El și-a finalizat formarea de super-specialitate de la prestigiosul Centru Medical Tata. El a făcut parte din echipa care a efectuat peste 200 de transplanturi de măduvă osoasă pe parcursul a doi ani. Are numeroase publicații naționale și internaționale. A fost investigator principal într-unul din studiile clinice în domeniul leucemiei. Procedurile cheie efectuate de Dr. Srinath sunt transplantul de măduvă osoasă și celule stem, transplantul de sânge din cordonul ombilical, leucemia/limfomul. Au fost făcute progrese semnificative în înțelegerea biologiei leucemiei în ultimele decenii. Acest lucru s-a tradus prin recunoașterea unor noi ținte pentru terapie, noi opțiuni terapeutice și terapie țintită care, la rândul lor, au îmbunătățit semnificativ rezultatele clinice ale pacienților cu leucemie. Dr. Shrinath Shirsagar este medicul cu experiență pentru un astfel de tratament avansat pentru leucemie și limfom în Mumbai. With the 8 years of experience He is specially interested in immunosuppressive drugs, targeted therapy, hodgkins lymphoma, myeloma, lymphoma, strocytoma, osteosarcoma, stereotactic radiosurgery, blood cancer, leukemia, sickle-cell anemia, germ cell tumour (GCT), thalassemia, limfom non hodgkin, and all forms, type and stages of cancer.
