A child aged three years and eight months, suffering from myeloid leukemia, underwent a double transplant at the Irccs Sant'Orsola in Bologna: first of marrow, then of microbiota.
He is the smallest patient in Europe treated with this procedure, in the literature he is the second case in the world.
Now he has recovered and has been discharged.
This was announced by the Polyclinic in a press conference.
The child arrived at the Bologna hospital from Bosnia, thanks to the support of the Ageop-Ricerca Association.
The little boy received the donation of hematopoietic stem cells from his mother, but after the transplant he developed intestinal GvHD, a serious complication of rejection disease.
Hospitalized for two months and subjected to immunosuppressive therapy, even with an experimental drug, he did not improve.
The doctors, faced with severe and worrying symptoms, decided on a microbiota transplant after receiving authorization from the National Transplant Center.
The child underwent two microbiota infusions;
the symptoms immediately regressed and he was able to return home with his family.
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