Dr Vipin Khandelwal, Pediatric Hemato-oncology & BMT – Pediatric Practice… Pearls for your Pediatric Office Practice

Diseases of the Blood…

Iron chelation therapy in Thalassemia major

17 Dec 202016 Dec 2020

Continued from Previous Post on Assessment of Iron Overload in Thalassemia Goal of chelation therapy is to decrease tissue iron to a safe level and to minimise level of non-transferrin bound iron (NTBI)…

Diseases of the Blood…

Assessment of iron overload in Thalassemia patients

13 Dec 202013 Dec 2020

An inevitable complication of regular blood transfusions in a Thalassemia major is iron overload. Assessment of iron overload by serum ferritin is widely used, relatively easy to perform and most acceptable, but…

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation(HSCT)…

Types of bone marrow transplants & finding a suitable donor for BMT

12 Nov 202012 Nov 2020

Continued from previous post..... There are two main types of transplants – Autologous and Allogenic. Autologous Transplants: This means that the bone marrow or stem cells used for the transplant…

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation(HSCT)…

What is a stem cell (bone marrow) transplant

8 Nov 202011 Nov 2020

A stem cell transplant is more commonly known as a bone marrow transplant (BMT). The reason we use different terms is that in the past the stem cells were obtained…