Bone marrow transplantation during 1995-2000

ABSTRACT

The bone marrow transplantation is a most modern technique and applied in Vietnam to treat the malignant hematological diseases. This paper introduced the bone marrow heterotransplantation and the autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation. 3 patients (1 male; 2 female) received transplantation (bone marrow fluid was extracted from patient’s brothers) for the treatment of the chronic myeloid leukemia and severe thalassemia and 17 patients received the autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation for treatment of acute myeloid leukemia, chronic myeloid leukemia, acute lyphoid leukemia and lymphoma. The results have shown that the longest survival duration was 42 months after the autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation. The patients had a normal life such as learning, working and social activities. After 2 months of transplantation, the average disease free duration of 10 patients with AML and 6 patients with ALL were 27 months, and 30-40 months, respectively. This was an great encouragement.