The first transplant in 2022
On Christmas Eve in Okhmatdyt, the first in Ukraine unrelated bone marrow transplant was performed in 2022 .
Two-year-old Victoria became the 19th patient of Okhmatdyt and the 21st in Ukraine to have an unrelated bone marrow transplant. The first transplant this year fell on Christmas, and then the most cherished wish of the girl and her parents came true - Vika got a chance for a full life!
Ternopil doctors first fought for the children’s health, then the girl went to Okhmatdyt. Immediately the child was treated in the Department of Oncohematology, which is headed by Natalia Kubala. Then the team of the bone marrow transplant department, under the leadership of the head Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Lysytsia, took care of Victoria’s health.
Physicians did everything possible to save the little patient: selected chemotherapy regimens, developed a treatment strategy, prepared the child’s body for transplantation. In parallel , the Ukrainian Bone Marrow Donor Registry was working to find a donor for Victoria. Due to the lack of remission, the date of transplantation had to be postponed .
A donor from Poland became the savior for the girl. He approached her in all respects. In total, 21 patients have already received rescue stem cells from non-family donors in Ukraine, 19 of them in Okhmatdyt. This gave a chance to life to patients with diagnoses such as leukemia, aplastic anemia and others.
The girl is currently continuing her treatment at Okhmatdyt’s bone marrow transplant department. There is still a lot of work ahead, but we believe that everything will work out. We thank Okhmatdyt’s specialists for round-the-clock work and constant self-improvement! We thank the medical staff of the TCM and Oncohematology Department, the Blood Service Center, the laboratory, the Acute Rehabilitation Department and all those involved in the process, as well as the Ukrainian Bone Marrow Donor Registry and its head Roman Kuts for finding donors. We thank all those involved in the development of transplantation in Ukraine.
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Two-year-old Victoria became the 19th patient of Okhmatdyt and the 21st in Ukraine to have an unrelated bone marrow transplant. The first transplant this year fell on Christmas, and then the most cherished wish of the girl and her parents came true - Vika got a chance for a full life!
Ternopil doctors first fought for the children’s health, then the girl went to Okhmatdyt. Immediately the child was treated in the Department of Oncohematology, which is headed by Natalia Kubala. Then the team of the bone marrow transplant department, under the leadership of the head Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Lysytsia, took care of Victoria’s health.
Physicians did everything possible to save the little patient: selected chemotherapy regimens, developed a treatment strategy, prepared the child’s body for transplantation. In parallel , the Ukrainian Bone Marrow Donor Registry was working to find a donor for Victoria. Due to the lack of remission, the date of transplantation had to be postponed .
A donor from Poland became the savior for the girl. He approached her in all respects. In total, 21 patients have already received rescue stem cells from non-family donors in Ukraine, 19 of them in Okhmatdyt. This gave a chance to life to patients with diagnoses such as leukemia, aplastic anemia and others.
The girl is currently continuing her treatment at Okhmatdyt’s bone marrow transplant department. There is still a lot of work ahead, but we believe that everything will work out. We thank Okhmatdyt’s specialists for round-the-clock work and constant self-improvement! We thank the medical staff of the TCM and Oncohematology Department, the Blood Service Center, the laboratory, the Acute Rehabilitation Department and all those involved in the process, as well as the Ukrainian Bone Marrow Donor Registry and its head Roman Kuts for finding donors. We thank all those involved in the development of transplantation in Ukraine. More news