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He Gave Our Daughter A New Lease Of Life. “Peripheral Blood Stem Cell (PBSC) transplant has been used all over the world to cure cases of leukaemia, aplastic anaemia, thalassemia, bone marrow dysplasia and other such disorders.

DATRI, an NGO organised donor and recipient meet of the first successful unrelated Blood Stem Cell transplant which was facilitated by the Indian Registry on Thursday. One-year-old, Pranathi Gondu, the recipient was diagnosed with Acute Lymphocytic Leukaemia (ALL).

The doctors who were treating her in CMC Vellore suggested for a blood stem cell transplant. When the hospital approached the NGO for a voluntary donor, Sadineni Venkateshwara Rao’s was found who had an unaltered genetic match for Pranathi. In June 2011, he donated his blood stem cells.

The procedure went on for four hours at Apollo Speciality Hospital, Chennai. The transplantation took place in July 2011. Pranathi has recovered the surgery and has completed two years and four months.

Raghu Rajagopal, CEO, DATRI, says, “Many patients in the country can benefit from Peripheral Blood Stem Cell (PBSC) transplant. Going by the details of the ICMR, there were 104239 cases of leukaemia by 2010 which is projected to escalate up to 117649 by 2015. There is less awareness about PBSC and the number of donors is also very less.”

“By unrelated blood stem cells transplantation, Pranathi an acute lymphocytic leukaemia patient got a new lease of life. Today she is living as healthy as any other child. She is a living example of the miracle of transplantation of blood stem cells,” said Dr Senthil Jagannathan Rajappa, oncologist, Basavatarakam Indo American cancer Hospital and Research Institute.

“Peripheral Blood Stem Cell (PBSC) transplant has been used all over the world to cure cases of leukaemia, aplastic anaemia, thalassemia, bone marrow dysplasia and other such disorders. Another important thing is, there is only 25 per cent chance of finding a match within patient’s family.

75 per cent of patients do not find a suitable donor in their family. In such cases there is a necessity to find an unrelated donor through the donor registries. That’s what happened in the case of Pranathi. But towards the downside, with very few registered donors available in India, the possibility of finding a match for an Indian anywhere in the world is low.” said Dr Rajappa.

Murali Gondu, Pranathi’s father, said, “Without the donor my daughter would not have been alive today. We owe a profound debt the donor.”

Sadineni Venkateshwara Rao said that he feels blessed to have received such an opportunity. “I would appeal to everyone to come forward and join this campaign and help save lives.”

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