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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"bone marrow transplant"”.
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The Lived Experience of a Bone Marrow Transplant Survivor
Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT) has progressed from an experimental therapy to a viable treatment for cancer. While the prospects for long-term survival following the procedure has increased, little is known about the quality of this survival. The present study was intended to explore the …
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Psycho-social problems identified by adult bone marrow transplant survivors
Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) offers many patients who are diagnosed with leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma and aplastic anaemia the opportunity of increased survival. Chemotherapy is one of the most common forms of treatment for cancer patients en-route to BMT, which is often a concomitant stressor …
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Pediatric Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant ICU Patients in Children’s and General Hospitals
Pediatric oncology and hematopoietic stem cell (HCT) care in the US is increasingly provided at children’s hospitals (CH), but many children still receive care at general hospitals (GH). Little is known about the characteristics of pediatric oncology and HCT patients treated in intensive care units …
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Applications of Causal Inference Methods for the Estimation of Effects of Bone Marrow Transplant and Prescription Drugs on Survival of Aplastic Anemia Patients
… of treatment impacts, specifically focusing on bone marrow transplantation (BMT) and prescription drugs, and the identification of optimal treatment strategies.</p> <p>The first paper, "Causal Inference Analysis for Assessing the Effect of Bone Marrow Transplantation on the One-Year Survival of …
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The design, development and formative evaluation of a multimedia-based pediatric patient education package : The BMT voyage : all you need to know about your bone marrow transplant
… described. The CD-ROM informs children about the bone marrow transplant process (presents declarative information) and helps to reduce pediatric patient and family stress and anxiety (attitude change) through the delivery of interactive multimedia instruction for self-paced instruction. A script …
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Bone marrow transplantation in infancy and childhood
During a bone marrow transplant there is a major risk of infection either due to the specific disease or as a result of the required preconditioning. Severely neutropenic patients benefit from receiving prophylactic antimicrobial agents within a protected environment and the thesis opens with a …
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Pharmacological management of leukemia in children
… or a cancer of the blood. It develops in the bone marrow. Leukemia is usually described either as "acute" or "chronic". In this thesis, looks into understanding the wide variety of treatment for leukemia in children. in summary, with addition of supportive care and palliative care, treatment …
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Transplant anxieties : discourses about bone marrow
… examines the various discourses in the Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) network in South Africa. The organisations in the network which were observed using participant observation were the South African Bone Marrow Registry and the Sunflower Fund to complement this, the researcher …
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Chimerizmo analizė atskirose ląstelių populiacijose po alogeninės kraujodaros kamieninių ląstelių transplantacijos vaikams /
… (WBC). The study was initiated in Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Service of Charité Children’s Hospital (Humboldt University, Berlin). Children suffered from: acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), Fanconi anemia (FA) and adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) were included into the study. Thereafter the …
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Liver Transplant Education and Training for Medical Surgical ICU Nurses
… for appropriate education and training for liver transplant as a new patient population for Medical Surgical ICU nurses. The transplant experience for these nurses currently include critically ill Bone Marrow Transplant, as well as stable heart and lunch transplant. The methods used to implement …
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Mobilization of Adipose Stromal Cells In Obesity and Cancer By Sparc and Its Proteolytic Isoforms
… tumor growth. Next, by using a chimeric GFP-RFP bone marrow transplant model, we observed higher tumor infiltrating cells with ASC phenotype in obese mice compared to lean. Consistently, systemic circulating ASC frequency is six fold higher in tumor-bearing obese mice compared to lean. The tumor …
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Development of a Human Immune System from Hematopoietic Stem Cells in a Human/Mouse Xenogeneic Model
… these and other clinically important maladies. Transplantation of severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice with human hematopoietic stem cells results in long-term engraftment and systemic reconstitution with human progenitor, B and myeloid cells but curiously, human T cells are rarely …
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Investigating The Role of Il-10 Producing Nkt Cells In Prevention of Graft Versus Host Disease
… hematologic malignancies is allogeneic stem cell transplantation (ASCT), in which the patient’s immune system is replaced with that of a healthy donor. This can lead to cure through the graft versus leukemia (GVL) effect but can also cause graft versus host disease (GVHD), which is characterized …
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The effect of single and fractionated dose radiation on craniofacial growth in rats
Bone marrow transplant (BMT) preparative regimens for children usually include total body irradiation in combination with chemotherapy. Abnormal growth and endocrine deficiencies have been observed in children after BMT (Sanders 1988). Although the detrimental effects of localized high dose …
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The Impact of Family Functioning on Children's Adaptation During a Parent's Bone Marrow Transplantation
Bone marrow transplant (BMT) is being used ever more widely for advanced and refractory malignancies. The family unit and individual members are profoundly affected by this treatment process. Few studies have examined the effect of parental BMT on the family, and there are no known studies which …
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The prevention and diagnosis of central venous catheter-related infection
… bloodstream infection (CR-BSI) on a bone marrow transplant (BMT) unit and Siaphylococcus aureus recovered from 6 cardiothoracic surgery patients with surgical site infection (SSI) following median sternotomy. This epidemiological investigation revealed that common strains of CoNS and …
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Exercise and activity patterns in cancer patients after recent allogeneic bone marrow transplatation
Exercise following autologous bone marrow/ peripheral blood stem cell transplants (BMT/PBSCT) may decrease fatigue and loss of physical function that usually occur post-transplant. However, there is little empirical data regarding the effect of exercise on activity levels and symptom severity …
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Leukemia and bone marrow transplantation : personal meanings and perceptions of the illness experience
… purposive sample was selected from the bone marrow transplant (BMT) directory of a North American transplant center to describe the personal meanings and perceptions of the illness experience of individuals who had been diagnosed with leukemia, and undergone BMT, and to explore and …
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Exercise and activity patterns in cancer patients after recent allogeneic bone marrow transplatation
Exercise following autologous bone marrow/ peripheral blood stem cell transplants (BMT/PBSCT) may decrease fatigue and loss of physical function that usually occur post-transplant. However, there is little empirical data regarding the effect of exercise on activity levels and symptom severity …
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Alterações na qualidade de vida de adultos com câncer hematológico em cinco anos após o transplante de células-tronco hematopoéticas
… adultos com câncer hematológico, submetidos ao transplante de células-tronco hematopoéticas, nos primeiros cinco anos após o procedimento. Trata-se de um estudo quantitativo, longitudinal, observacional e analítico, realizado em hospital público do sul do Brasil, referência na América Latina …
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