Bone marrow and stem cell transplantation: Malaysian experience.
Malaysia conducted the first BMT in the country in 1987. Since then, there have been 1155 transplantations performed in a total of eight transplant centres. A majority of the transplantations were allogeneic, including myeloablative and nonmyeloablative. A vast majority of donors are HLA identical siblings. The mean age of transplanted patients was 26 years. The major reason for transplantation was hematological malignancies. The overall survival was 60% for allogeneic transplantation and 52% for autologous transplantation. The most common cause of death in transplanted patients was the underlying disease followed by infection-related complications. Currently, the government is expanding the existing public cord blood bank as well as the local donor registry.
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Department of Medicine, The Adult Hematology Unit, University Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. gingingan@gmail.com
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D000328:Adult; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000208:ethnology / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D006086:Graft vs Host Disease / Q000209:etiology; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000208:ethnology / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D008296:Malaysia; D008297:Male