Hi,
Ayesha is a 3.5 year girl living in Pakistan has blood disorder. She is diagnosed for “Pure red cell aplasia” and ultimate cure is Bone marrow Transplant. She has no side effects with iron chelation and blood transfusion and living happily.
We have tried searching donors in family/cosines and even her sibling but they are all not matched.
I have talked to Dr, Shishir Seth from Apollo Cancer Institute and Dr Sunit Bhat from Mazumdar Shaw Cancer Centre, Narayana Health City Bangalore, India. They have tried searching unrelated donor in Donor register and but no success.
They found 9/10 matched donor but I am afraid they said there is risk of death when donor is not %100 matched. They also tell me about Haplo-identical BMT from mother with no %100 success rate.
Ayesha is going to Turkey/Istanbul in 2 months and we will try searching donors there. i have talked to Acibadem hospital in istanbul and they tell us following price.
$50,000 for unrelated donor
$150,000 for Transplant
She is taking followings Medications:
Red pack cell Transfusion every month
2 x 100mg Asunra Tab. Per day
1 x 500mg deferral injection 3 times a week
I would like to know what other options are there?
Is there any new research where we can produce an HLA matched baby?