Patient's question:
The little girl of a family relative was carefully examined and diagnosed with leukemia, and then underwent a bone marrow transplant surgery. However, we are still very worried about what new symptoms may arise from this bone marrow transplant?Doctor's answer:
Leukemia is a malignant clonal disease of two types of self-repair stem cells. Clinical diagnosis shows varying degrees of anemia, skin peeling, infectious fever, as well as enlargement of the liver, spleen, and lymph nodes, and bone pain. Bone marrow transplantation is one of the methods to treat leukemia. Bone marrow transplantation is also known as hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and various complications may arise during the grafting process. Early complications include infection, graft-versus-host disease, etc. Late complications include cataracts, leukoencephalopathy, and secondary malignant tumors, etc. It is recommended to seek treatment as soon as possible for better outcomes. Due to mechanisms such as uncontrolled cell division, division, and blocked apoptosis, clonal leukemia cells accumulate in large numbers in bone marrow and other self-repair tissues, and infiltrate other non-self-repair tissues and organs, while severely suppressing normal self-repair functions.