Stem Cell Transplant (Bone Marrow Transplant) - Cleveland Clinic A stem cell transplant can treat — and sometimes cure — certain blood disorders, cancers and autoimmune diseases The procedure replaces unhealthy stem cells with healthy ones Your provider might get healthy stem cells from your own bone marrow Or they might use donated stem cells from another person
Getting a Stem Cell or Bone Marrow Transplant | American . . . Transfusions of red blood cells and platelets are often needed until the bone marrow starts working and new blood cells are being made by the infused stem cells Except for graft-versus-host disease, which only happens with allogeneic transplants, the side effects from autologous, allogeneic, and syngeneic stem cell transplants are much the same
About Bone Marrow Harvesting | Memorial Sloan Kettering . . . Bone marrow harvesting is a procedure to harvest (collect) stem cells from your bone marrow The stem cells are then used for a stem cell transplant They can be used for either an autologous (aw-TAH-luh-gus) or an allogeneic (A-loh-jeh-NAY-ik) transplant In an autologous stem cell transplant, your stem cells are harvested and then given back
Stem Cell and Bone Marrow Transplants for Cancer - NCI When the stem cells come from the bone marrow, the procedure may be called a bone marrow transplant, or BMT When they come from cord blood, the procedure may be called a cord blood transplant Once they enter your bloodstream, the stem cells travel to the bone marrow, where they take the place of the cells that were destroyed by treatment