Bone Marrow Transplantation

Myeloma

Myeloma is a malignant disease of the bone marrow. The features are an excess of abnormal malignant plasma cells in the bone marrow, lytic deposits on an X-ray and abnormal gammaglobulin in the seru...

Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia ALL

Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) is a life-threatening disease in which the cells that normally develop into lymphocytes become cancerous and rapidly replace normal cells in the bone marrow. ALL acc...

Gaucher's disease

Gaucher's (go-SHAYZ) disease occurs when certain harmful fatty substances accumulate to excessive levels in your liver, spleen, lungs, bone marrow and, less commonly, brain. This accumulation of...

Lymphoma of bone

HIV Drug May Prevent Bone Marrow Transplant Complication

WEDNESDAY, July 11 (HealthDay News) -- An HIV drug significantly reduced the risk of graft-versus-host disease, an all-too-common complication in blood cancer patients following bone marrow transplant...

Bone marrow registration spikes after TV anchor announcement

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two weeks after "Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts announced she was being treated for a rare blood and bone marrow disease, the number of people offering to donate bone...

Bone Marrow Holds Secrets for Treating Colitis and Crohn’s

Researchers have unlocked secrets in bone marrow that could lead to improved treatments for colitis and Crohn’s disease. The results show that the havoc inflammatory bowel diseases wreaks on the dig...

Bone marrow holds secrets for treating colitis and Crohn's

(Michigan State University) Michigan State University researchers have unlocked secrets in bone marrow that could lead to improved treatments for colitis and Crohn's disease. The results, featured in...

Stem cell transplants: blood and bone marrow yield similar survival

Survival rates of patients needing bone marrow transplants are unaffected by whether they receive stem cells from blood or bone marrow, say scientists...

Scientists find bone-marrow environment that helps produce infection-fighting T and B cells

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) The Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern has deepened the understanding of the environment within bone marrow that nurtures stem cells, this...

Discovery may help prevent chemotherapy-induced anemia

(Albert Einstein College of Medicine) Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have discovered that chemotherapy induces an insidious type of nerve damage inside bone marrow that can cause d...

Cytomedix (OTCQX: CMXI) ANGEL® cPRP System granted FDA 510(K) Clearance for processing Blood and Bone Marrow Aspirate

Advances in Autologous Whole Blood and Bone Marrow Separation …   CMXI has cleared the FDA for use of its Angel® Concentrated Platelet Rich Plasma (cPRP) System for processing a small samp...

Bone and bone marrow: the same organ.

Interplays between bone and bone marrow are not limited to merely anatomic and histological connections, but include a tight functional correlation. Bone marrow resides within the medullary cavity of...

Bone marrow infection with mycobacterium fortuitum in a diabetic patient.

Incidence and prevalence of Mycobacterium fortuitum infection vary greatly by location and death is very rare except in disseminated disease in immunocompromised individuals. We present what we believ...

MR imaging patterns of bone marrow.

The marrow contains a variable amount of yellow or fatty marrow and red or cellular marrow creating the signal intensity observed on MRI. Marrow replacement (by cells not normally present in bone marr...

Bone marrow-targeted liposomal carriers.

Introduction: Bone marrow-targeted drug delivery systems appear to offer a promising strategy for advancing diagnostic, protective and/or therapeutic medicine for the hematopoietic system. Liposome te...

IgM Production by Bone Marrow Plasmablasts Contributes to Long-Term Protection against Intracellular Bacterial Infection.

IgM responses are well known to occur early postinfection and tend to be short-lived, which has suggested that this Ig does not significantly contribute to long-term immunity. In this study, we demons...