Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 27: The Govt Medical College (GMC), Srinagar has performed the first Autologous Bone Marrow Stem Cell Transplant successfully in a case of high-risk multiple myeloma, officials said.
A GMC spokesperson said that the patient was admitted to Medical Unit-III of the Postgraduate Department of Medicine and the whole procedure was conducted by the qualified and experienced Clinical Haematologist Dr Mir Sadaqat, Assistant Professor-Department of Medicine and Clinical Haematology Unit of GMC and Associated Super-Specialty Hospital, Srinagar.
“The procedure involved stem cell mobilization, stem cell harvesting, myeloablation and stem cell rescue,” GMC said, adding that the patient remained admitted for 22 days in the hospital and was discharged after successful engraftment of the stem cells.
“This is the first time in the history of GMC Srinagar that this type of treatment modality in a blood cancer patient has been provided that too in a resource-limited setting.”
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