First autologous stem cell transplant successfully performed on 32-month-old child
Source: VNA -
(VOVWORLD) - The Children’s Hospital 2 in Ho Chi Minh City has successfully performed an autologous stem cell transplant on the smallest patient so far - a 32-month-old girl suffering from severe neuroblastoma (NB).
The 32-month-old girl at her first post-surgery examination (Photo: VNA)
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According to Dr Trinh Huu Tung, the hospital’s Director, the patient, from the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, was hospitalised last June with severe abdominal pain and malnutrition. Without a hematopoietic stem-cell transplant, the survival rate was only 12%.
The patient received an autologous stem cell transplant on December 20. Sixteen days after the surgery, she was discharged from the hospital in good health. At her first post-surgery examination, she showed good signs of recovery.
Tung said each year the hospital treats about 40 children suffering from NB, adding the hospital has built a stem cell transplant centre which became operational last December.
Source: VNA