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What does a patient go through before having a bone marrow transplant. and after the transplant?
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It's complicated.: There are different protoclos but generally it starts with drugs to supress or destroy recipient bone marrow, and drugs to block the immune system so the graft can "take". Blood counts are low, and infections occur, transfusions needed. Once engrafted, worry is graft vs host disease and powerful immunosupressive drugs are given to prevent or treat gvhd. Sites are lung, liver, skin, GI tract.
Answered 10/13/2017
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