MANIPAL: Doctors at Kasturba Hospital, Manipal have conducted a Graft Manipulated Half-Matched Bone Marrow Transplantation on a year old boy, who was diagnosed with Severe Combined immunodeficiency (Type of Immunodeficiency).
A release from the Hospital stated that the only treatment that could cure him of his disease was a bone marrow transplantation. The team of doctors in the Division of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology decided to perform a half-matched bone marrow transplant, a unique procedure to save the child.
