Mystery BMT Terms & Abbreviations
Across
- 1. Characterized by hepatomegaly, right upper quadrant pain, jaundice, and ascites, most often occurring in patients undergoing stem cell transplant. Previously called VOD
- 5. Test to determine if lymphoid or myeloid line have engrafted
- 9. Less toxic treatment allows older patients, or patients with significant co-morbidities to have a transplant.
- 10. Side-effect that may occur after a bone marrow or stem cell transplant from a donor
- 12. Due to small cell volume, these are often performed with cells from two donors.
- 14. In this type of transplant the donor isn't related to patient
- 15. In this type of transplant, the donor is usually the patient’s child or parent
- 17. Progression of disease
- 19. Stem cell transplant from a donor
- 20. This is “planting more seeds” using primitive cells, and is less likely to cause GVHD
- 22. Two genetically distinct types of cells
Down
- 2. Transplant between genetically identical twins
- 3. The number ONE thing the NIH recommends transplant patients do before transplant
- 4. Human leukocyte antigen.
- 6. Chemotherapy given to kill cancer cells, also kills all healthy bone marrow and allows new stem cells to grow in the bone marrow
- 7. Stem Cell Transplant
- 8. An intensive drug treatment to kill cancer cells,that also destroys healthy cells in the marrow
- 11. Lymphocytes from the donor are infused into patient
- 13. Patient donates for themselves
- 16. Stem cells mobilized from marrow and collected through apheresis
- 18. Hematopoietic stem cell transplant
- 21. Treatment that replaces bone marrow that is either not working correctly or has been destroyed by chemotherapy &/or radiation
- 23. Hematopoietic cell transplant