What Is a Stem Cell Transplantation?
A stem cell transplantation procedure or a bone marrow or stem cell transplant surgery helps a patient who needs the new stem cells to live. The process of offering healthy stem cells to a person who has unhealthy stem cells is a life-giving and life-saving operation for someone in need.
We need to put on our scientific hat for a few moments to understand stem cells. Blood stem cells are magicians, in that they are able to be produced in the bone marrow of your body, and become or turn into any type of blood cell that the body requires. Now, that is magical! Stem cells are like other cells of the body that make, replicate and produce themselves to divide and help the blood in your body recover every day.
In people who have a faulty system of blood cells, usually due to diseases such as cancer or leukemia, those stem cells will not function properly. But help can be on the way, if the person can get a stem cell transplant or bone marrow transplant from someone else. This transplant of healthy new cells will help trigger the old and diseased blood stem cells to start to produce healthy cells to ward off infections, anemia, cancer or bleeding in your body.
How Does a Stem Cell Transplantation Work?
Stem cell transplantations are surgical procedures where one person with damaged stem cells receives healthy life-sustaining stem cells from someone else (a live donor). Before a person gets a stem cell transplant, that individual will need a super high dose of chemotherapy or radiation therapy to prepare the cells to be the healthiest to receive new cells. After the stem cells are put into the person’s blood stream, the stem cells move to the bone marrow, and start to replicate as great looking and acting healthy cells. These new and healthy cells will from white and red blood cells and platelets, allowing the person to live a longer and healthier life.
What Are the Types of Stem Cell Transplantations?
Stem cell transplantations can be one of the following:
- Autologous – which uses the person’s own stem cells that are removed, treated and returned to the same person.
- Allogeneic transplantation – where a donor gives healthy stem cells to someone who needs them.
- Reduced-intensity stem cell transplantation – where a healthy person donates stem cells, with a lower dose of chemotherapy to “wash” through the system pre-transfer.
- Syngeneic transplantation – this is a rare transplant of stem cells that is only ever used on identical twins, where they have the exact same match for genetic factors and their tissue types are exactly the same.
If you are the victim of a medical malpractice after a stem cell transplant procedure, you need to call our office today. You will be connected with a lawyer who knows how to get the best results in this type of case for personal injuries. We are able to initiate a lawsuit for the damages incurred as a result of your stem cell transplant procedure, and the medical malpractice of the doctors and clinical staff, as related to this claim.
You are best served to discuss this case related to stem cell transplantation malpractice issues with a lawyer with experience in major medical malpractice concerns. Why not get the best advantage to call our law firm? When you do, you will find that we have attorneys who specialize in medical malpractice related to stem cell transplantation procedures. You want to talk to a lawyer with a hard specialty in this type of case. Just give us a call today, to talk to an experienced attorney in Los Angeles with the actual experience you need for winning this type of case and claim for stem cell transplant medical malpractice.
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Counteractions, Complications and Side Effects of Stem Cell Transplants
The giving of life when someone donates bone marrow for a stem cell transplant is an amazing gesture of kindness and compassion. But there is a huge downside to getting and receiving a stem cell transplant.
You can have many serious side effects, counteractions and adverse medical events that occur before, during or after the stem cell transplant procedure, including:
- Mouth and throat pain
- Mucositis and sores in the mouth
- Nausea and vomiting
- Serious bacterial and staph infections
- Viral infections
- Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP)
- Cytomegalovirus
- Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD)
- Increased bleeding
- Pneumonitis and lung problems
- Diarrhea
- Loss of appetite
- Yellowing of skin and eyes (jaundice)
- Abdominal pain
- Weight loss
- Skin feeling too tight
- Burning and dry eyes
- Blockage in small lung airways
- Enlarged liver
- Higher than normal liver enzymes in the blood
- Hepatic veno-occlusive disease (VOD)
- Graft failure
- Cataracts and clouding of eye lens
- Hormone changes
- Infertility
- Lymph tissues with abnormal growths
- New and secondary cancers
- Relapse of cancer cells
- Other organs can become damaged
- Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD)
If you have developed any or a combination of these issues after your stem cell transplant, you may be the victim of a medical malpractice claim. If this is the case for you, you need to talk to the lawyers in our office who can help you with understanding the proper interpretation of the law in this case.
Any time that you experience complications from a stem cell transplant surgery, you can have life-threatening problems in the future as a result of this surgical procedure. The stem cell transplantation is meant to provide you with a new lease on life, and offer an opportunity to grow healthy and new stem cells that will replace damaged and diseased stem cells in your body. If you are the victim of stem cell transplant malpractice, we are able to walk you through this claim and case. You need to talk to an experienced attorney in Los Angeles, when your right to reimbursement is obvious in this type of case.
Can I Sue for a Stem Cell Transplant Medical Malpractice Case?
Yes, we can sue when you need to be reimbursed for your losses, pain and suffering and medical damages related to personal injuries for a medical malpractice case related to a stem cell transplant surgery. You need to call our Los Angeles case lawyers. We are here for you, and can file a lawsuit, where there is a danger that the at-fault parties will get off without paying for the personal injuries that they have sustained on you, causing you to suffer after your stem cell transplant procedure.
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Can I Sue for Medical Malpractice for a Stem Cell Transplant?
Yes, we can sue for the wrongs of others in relation to your stem cell transplantation surgery.
When you have been the victim of a medical malpractice claim in relation to stem cell transplantation, you will want the best legal representation possible. One call to our Los Angeles case lawyers will put you in the position that you can file a lawsuit, and receive the recovery compensation that you need in this type of case.
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