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The there are two procedures, the stem cell procedure is acurately described according to the link you posted. > How are bone marrow and peripheral blood stem
by shkkmo 6y ago
The there are two procedures, the stem cell procedure is acurately described according to the link you posted.
> How are bone marrow and peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) donation different?
> Donating bone marrow is a surgical procedure done under general or regional anesthesia in a hospital. While a donor receives anesthesia, doctors use needles to withdraw liquid marrow from the back of the pelvic bone.
> PBSC donation is a non-surgical procedure done in an outpatient clinic. PBSC donors receive daily injections of a drug called filgrastim for five days, to increase the number of blood-forming cells in the bloodstream. Then, through a process called apheresis, a donor's blood is removed through a needle in one arm and passed through a machine that separates out the blood-forming cells. The remaining blood is returned to the donor through the other arm.
- iandanforth 6y agoAhh that's what's going on, the first sentence conflates the two and the second sentence doesn't specify PBSC.
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- lethoso 6y agoAs someone who's donated via PBSC it's a whole lot more than a regular blood donation. Two batteries of tests, the drugs are no joke, and the donation session is more or less a whole day affair - or two days if you're unlucky and they don't harvest enough cells the first day (I was unlucky). I don't have any regrets doing it - the impost on me was fairly trivial compared to the difference it can make for the recipient, but it's not a thing to be taken lightly.