The role of the bone marrow transplantation nurse practitioner (BMT NP) has been implemented in most major academic transplantation centers; however, little literature supports the scope of practice and core competencies in this setting. With an increasing shortage of oncologists, opportunities exist for BMT NPs to become leaders in the clinical management of BMT recipients. This article review...

Twenty-five pediatric patients who received bone marrow transplantation (BMT) were studied prospectively to determine the relationship between BMT and human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) infection by the virus isolation from peripheral blood and/or bone marrow and by determining neutralizing antibodies to HHV-6 during the 2 months following BMT. All of the 25 donors and the recipients were immune to HH...

during april, 1991 and september, 1993, eighteen patients with major thalassemia admitted to shariati bmt center. seventeen patients were transplanted were from hla identical siblings and one from. his hla identical father. eleven of the donors were the known cases of minor thalassemia. the range of patients' age was within 3-10 years (with the average of 5 years and 11 months). among them...

In the 50 years since the first successful human bone marrow transplant (BMT) was performed in 1959, BMT has become the optimal therapy for a wide variety of life-threatening paediatric haematological, immunological and genetic disorders. Unfortunately, while BMT generally provides the only possibility of cure for such afflicted children, few (25%) have a matched sibling available, and suitably...

Idiopathic pneumonia syndrome (IPS) refers to diffuse, noninfectious pneumonia that occurs after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT). We have developed a model of IPS using a well-characterized murine BMT system (B1O.BR -+ CBA) in which lung injury after BMT can be induced by minor histocompatibility (H) antigenic differences between donor and hest. Lung pathology and broncho-alveolar ...

Donor T-cells can provide a graft-versus-leukemia effect and help to promote donor engraftment after allogeneic BMT; however, these benefits can be outweighed by the ability of the cells to induce life-threatening GVHD. Photochemical treatment (PCT) of T-cells with S-59 psoralen and long-wavelength UV-A light can inhibit their proliferative capacity and significantly decrease their ability to i...

Transmission electron microscopy of ultrathin sections was used to measure mouse retinal capillary basement membrane thickness (BMT). BMT increases predictably with age from 50 +/- 9 nm at 6 weeks to 154 +/- 27 nm at 20 months, but is not affected by strain or sex. There is an effect of retinal site, however, with BMT increasing with the radial distance from the optic nerve, 41 +/- 4 nm (center...

In patients with hematologic malignancies, Di Bartolomeo et al report encouraging outcomes after transplantation of granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF)– primed unmanipulated bone marrow from human leukocyte antigen (HLA)– haplotype mismatched (haploidentical) related donors, suggesting that this procedure makes haploidentical transplantation available in all transplant centers.

Echocardiography was performed in 16 children undergoing bone marrow transplantation (BMT) for mucopolysaccharidoses. Cardiac involvement before BMT was detected in seven (44%). One year after BMT (11 patients/five with cardiac involvement), left ventricular restriction resolved in 2/3 patients and hypertrophy in one. In the remainder, at mean follow up of 2.5 years, no progression of preexisti...