New Delhi [India], October 21 (ANI/SRV): Surat Hematology Centre, one of the leading Hematology centres in Surat, recently celebrated a landmark achievement of the 50th successful Bone Marrow Transplant. The Centre specialises in Bone Marrow Transplants and the treatment of blood disorders in the South Gujarat region and has some of the best Hematologists in Surat as their founders. The centre has achieved this remarkable feat in a very short period of time. The centre was established by two visionaries sharing the same passion, Dr Hasmukh R Balar and Dr Dharmesh Vaghasiya, both being Hemato-Oncologist & BMT Physicians. They started their journey with the 1st Autologous BMT (Bone Marrow Transplant) centre in the entire South Gujarat region. Steadily gaining a foothold in Autologous BMT, the natural progression led to their first successful Allogeneic BMT with a matched related donor in February 2020 and by September 2020, they were onto the 1st Haplo-matched BMT. By now the Surat H
Patients with blood cancer undergoing stem cell transplantation have a high risk of complications. The bacteria in their gut, however, can help their immune system recover and fight infections.
THOUGH Malaysia’s first paediatric and adult bone marrow transplants (BMT) took place in 1987 and 1993 respectively, most patients in the 1990s had to travel abroad to undergo such a procedure.
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