Month: November 2012

Antonio will live thanks to the umbilical cord of their little sister. -third Spain umbilical cord blood transplantation Spain, November 2012.- is the story of Antonio and star, protagonists of the second transplant of umbilical cord blood of a baby genetically selected in Andalusia. The procedure, done entirely in public health, has allowed that Antonio is cured of severe Medullary aplasia who suffered through transplant who has received blood from the umbilical cord of his sister, born after genetic selection on February 11 in the Virgen del Rocio Hospital of Sevilla. It is the third known case in Spain, the second for Andalusia and to public health, since in 2006 was adopted the law on assisted human reproduction including this therapeutic possibility. The entry of Antonio at 6 years of age and natural of Granada, in the transplant unit of bone marrow of the children Hospital, accredited as national reference for this type of procedure by the Ministry of health, took place on May 2, getting the Chimerism (implant 100% received her sister’s marrow)(, Star), 26 days later. Thanks to this treatment, Antonio no longer need to undergo weekly blood transfusions, only to specific pharmacological treatment and routine reviews with the team of Pediatric Hematology. The previous cases On October 12, 2008 Javier became the first baby born in hereditary disease-free Spain and a profile of identical histocompatibility (HLA)...