Mystery BMT Terms & Abbreviations

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