Hyderabad, Feb. 25 -- Doctors at Yashoda Hospitals, Somajiguda, have successfully given a new lease of life to a 10-month-old boy suffering from a rare and life-threatening bone marrow failure disorder by performing a state-of-the-art haploidentical stem cell transplantation.
Explaining the procedure to the media at the hospital on Wednesday, Senior Hemato-Oncologist and Bone Marrow Transplant Specialist Dr. Ashok Kumar Pillai said the child was diagnosed with Congenital Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia, an extremely rare inherited disorder marked by severe platelet deficiency and a high risk of bleeding. The condition affects nearly one in a million people, with fewer than 100 cases reported worldwide so far.
He said the infant, son of M...