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Odisha’s First Haplo Bone Marrow Transplant Patient Dies At SCBMCH In Cuttack

Cuttack: Ten days after undergoing halo allogenic bone marrow transplant (BMT) procedure, the first in Odisha, 19-year-old Sabyasachi Sahoo died at SCB Medical College and Hospital (MCH) here on Friday.

Sabyasachi was a relapsed blood cancer patient from Kantamali in Khurda district. “His health condition was gradually improving and had he survived for another 4-5 days, his body would have accepted the stem cells. Unfortunately, he died this morning. We have ordered a death review of the patient,” said SCB superintendent Dr Sudhanshu Shekhar Mishra.

BMT is a potentially curative therapy for high-risk hematologic malignancies not curable by standard chemotherapy.

Sabyasachi was diagnosed with B-ALL (B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia) in August 2016. Since his cancer relapsed after the full chemotherapy protocol, BMT was the last option, which enables transplant from half-matched donors. The stem cell collected from his younger brother, whose tests had revealed 50 per cent (5/10) match, was then transplanted by a team of doctors and BMT led by head of the clinical hematology department and BMT unit Prof Rabindra Kumar Jena on January 9.

 

 

OB Bureau

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