Pediatric Surgery
If parents have a choice about how to treat their child, including bone marrow transplantation, then previous treatments have not yielded positive results.
In Tel Aviv Medical Clinic, more than a hundred bone marrow transplants are performed per year. Thanks to the use of the most modern treatment methods that meet the highest European standards, hundreds of babies got a chance to live. In the department of onco-hematology, the most modern highly effective methods are used, cell and gene therapy, replacement immunotherapy of donor viable cells are carried out.
In Tel Aviv Medical Clinic, an operation was first performed to replace the mutated gene with a normal gene in severe immunodeficiency. Such a pathology leaves no chance of life. If the child does not die immediately after birth, then dies in the coming years.
Performing surgery
Bone marrow transplantation is an innovative technique that involves transplanting cells from the bone marrow of a relative or an outsider. The biomaterial is carefully prepared and tested for compatibility to prevent rejection. Before the operation, the patient undergoes enhanced chemotherapy and radiation irradiation to suppress bone marrow activity. This way helps to get rid of multiple tumors. Doctors of the Tel Aviv Medical Clinic constantly improve the transplant technique and have achieved high results in the treatment of ailments in both adults and children. This approach is used in children and patients with already existing cancer, which was previously impossible.
Complications after surgery
The most common complications are:
- rejection;
- acute response to biomaterial transplant;
- impaired engraftment.
These complications occur in only 5% of patients. The main risk factors for such a reaction are considered:
- unrelated donor;
- elderly age of the recipient;
- pre-sensitization of the donor;
- inadequate preparation for the operation.
Patients who contact our Tel Aviv Medical Clinic can be confident in the high professionalism of our surgeons and careful preparation for undergoing allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. All our medical staff received special training in the best institutions in Europe and America. Thanks to the use of modern techniques, our doctors manage to significantly improve the quality of life of seriously ill people. We are approached by patients not only from parts of Israel but also from all over the world.