Kolkata, September 02: A 43-year-old man, suffering from ‘Aplastic Anaemia’ for over a year, has got a new lease of life after undergoing a successful ‘mismatched and unrelated cord blood transplantation’ at a cancer research institute here.
‘Aplastic Anaemia’ is a haematological disorder stemming from bone marrow which is incapable of producing blood cells.
Rabindra Mallick from Baranagar area in north Kolkata was suffering from general weakness, occasional fever and anorexia since a year. After blood investigations and bone marrow tests, he was found to be suffering from ‘Aplastic Anaemic’.
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Cancer Research Institute consultant medical and haemato oncologist, Ashis Mukherjee, said here yesterday that since a single matched donor could not be managed for the patient, so they decided to go for cord blood transplantation.
He also claimed this was the first successful ‘unrelated, mismatched cord blood transplant’ in India.
–PTI