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Posted by: Jeffery Auletta, MD on Jul 23, 2020

Children requiring a bone marrow transplant are referred to a pediatric transplant center. Such centers have experience performing transplants and caring for children, adolescents and young adults after they receive a bone marrow transplant.

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Is My Child at Risk for Infection After a Bone Marrow Transplant?
A bone marrow transplant involves taking those stem cells from a donor and putting them into a patient. The patient usually has received chemotherapy or radiation before receiving the donor stem cells.
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Mold in Children's Hospitals: What Parents Need to Know
For children with healthy immune systems, mold exposure from the environment is not dangerous. Some people who are sensitive to molds might develop allergy symptoms due to chronic exposure to high amounts of mold.

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Stem Cell Transplant: Who Can Benefit and Who Can Be the Donor?

Feb 01, 2018

A stem cell transplant is a treatment that involves infusing hematopoietic (blood-forming) stem cells from a donor into a recipient. The collection of infused stem cells is called the stem cell “graft.” Read More