Bone marrow transplants allow the patient having Sickle cell disease to begin producing healthy red blood cells.
What is sickle cell ?
- Sickle cell is a term used to describe a set of hereditary red blood cell diseases.
- Red blood cells are spherical and flow through tiny blood channels to transport oxygen to all regions of the body in a healthy state.
- Sickle cell disease causes red blood cells to become hard and sticky, like a C-shaped farm tool called a "sickle."
- Inheriting the sickle cell gene causes sickle cell disease.
- It isn't caused by anything the parents did before or during the pregnancy, and it isn't contagious.
What is bone marrow transplants?
- A BMT is a procedure that replaces unhealthy blood-forming cells with healthy ones.
- Immature cells that develop into red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets are known as blood-forming cells (blood stem cells).
- Bone marrow, the soft tissue inside your bones, is where they're found.
- They leave the marrow and enter the circulation as they reach maturity.
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