The first TCM in Ukraine from a non-family donor - how was it?
On August 18, doctors from the Cherkasy Regional Oncology Dispensary, together with the team of the NDSL Okhmatdyt TCM branch, transplanted bone marrow to 18-year-old Elina Toropenko. Iryna Zaslavets, the founder of the All-Ukrainian Donation Platform iDonor and a part-time medical columnist for Windows News
, spoke on the page about the details of the transplant. A girl from Cherkasy region. In September 2019, she contracted acute myeloid leukemia, in other words, blood cancer. However, in Eli, it was complicated by gene mutations. After chemotherapy in Okhmatdyt, the cancer receded - remission, but the mutation persisted. Ale received maintenance therapy. And in May of this year, doctors diagnosed a relapse. The only chance at life is a bone marrow transplant.
There are no donors in the family. Earlier, in order to survive, Elya had to go abroad for crazy money - 110 thousand dollars - either collected by philanthropists or donated by the state. In addition to money, it took time and the opportunity to fly to Turkey. The girl’s condition did not allow it. And our doctors said: we will save her in Ukraine!
Thanks to the Ukrainian Registry of Bone Marrow Donors , the World Registry managed to find a fully compatible donor with Elya. This is a 19-year-old boy from Germany who agreed to share a piece of himself. At noon on August 18, a box with cages with a courier arrived in Boryspil. Then Cherkasy, check and at 20:00 - start TCM.
Almost a month has passed and Ale is being discharged! The donor bone marrow has taken root, the disease has been curbed
Elya leaves the ward and hugs her mother for the first time. She says it was her biggest dream of all time in boxing. And so it came true!
TCM Eli took place entirely at public expense. According to the tariff - 2,484,470 hryvnias.
Transplantation in Ukraine
Organ transplant operations in Ukraine have been possible since April 2019, when the Law of Ukraine "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on the Application of Human Anatomical Material Transplantation" came into force. It, in particular, regulates organ transplants from the deceased.
In 2019, Kovel had a heart transplant for the first time in 15 years. The patient was taken from Kyiv for the operation. On July 4, 2020, a triple operation was performed in Lviv from transplantation: heart and two kidneys were transplanted. At the end of December, Lviv doctors performed the first liver transplant operation in western Ukraine.
And in April, Ukrainian doctors transplanted bone marrow for the first time in 13 years. At least 250 organ transplant operations are planned to be performed in Ukraine in 2021 . 99,831 hryvnias were collected. Occluder paid. OPERATED.
, spoke on the page about the details of the transplant. A girl from Cherkasy region. In September 2019, she contracted acute myeloid leukemia, in other words, blood cancer. However, in Eli, it was complicated by gene mutations. After chemotherapy in Okhmatdyt, the cancer receded - remission, but the mutation persisted. Ale received maintenance therapy. And in May of this year, doctors diagnosed a relapse. The only chance at life is a bone marrow transplant.
There are no donors in the family. Earlier, in order to survive, Elya had to go abroad for crazy money - 110 thousand dollars - either collected by philanthropists or donated by the state. In addition to money, it took time and the opportunity to fly to Turkey. The girl’s condition did not allow it. And our doctors said: we will save her in Ukraine!
Thanks to the Ukrainian Registry of Bone Marrow Donors , the World Registry managed to find a fully compatible donor with Elya. This is a 19-year-old boy from Germany who agreed to share a piece of himself. At noon on August 18, a box with cages with a courier arrived in Boryspil. Then Cherkasy, check and at 20:00 - start TCM.
Almost a month has passed and Ale is being discharged! The donor bone marrow has taken root, the disease has been curbed Elya leaves the ward and hugs her mother for the first time. She says it was her biggest dream of all time in boxing. And so it came true!
TCM Eli took place entirely at public expense. According to the tariff - 2,484,470 hryvnias.
Transplantation in Ukraine
Organ transplant operations in Ukraine have been possible since April 2019, when the Law of Ukraine "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on the Application of Human Anatomical Material Transplantation" came into force. It, in particular, regulates organ transplants from the deceased.
In 2019, Kovel had a heart transplant for the first time in 15 years. The patient was taken from Kyiv for the operation. On July 4, 2020, a triple operation was performed in Lviv from transplantation: heart and two kidneys were transplanted. At the end of December, Lviv doctors performed the first liver transplant operation in western Ukraine.
And in April, Ukrainian doctors transplanted bone marrow for the first time in 13 years. At least 250 organ transplant operations are planned to be performed in Ukraine in 2021 . 99,831 hryvnias were collected. Occluder paid. OPERATED.