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What are the ways that docs determing who recieves bone marrow during a heart transplant?
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Different: There are bone marrow transplants for some malignant diseases- leukemias etc. Heart transplant would be unusual to have bone marrow transplant concomitantly i think. We do cut the sternum and its marrow while opening the chest.
Answered 1/9/2015
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