The team of the Department of Hematology, Blood Tumors and Bone Marrow Transplant of the University Clinical Hospital in Wroclaw performed a bone marrow transplantation in a patient who refused transfusions on religious grounds.

The patient – a young man who recently became a father, refused a transfusion on religious grounds. He was suffering from Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Blood transfusions are used in such operations to support the organism, in which the “new” marrow is not yet functioning, after the devastating chemotherapy and implantation of stem cells taken from the patient before.

The transplantation, probably the first in Poland, took place in December 2017. The treatment took place without complications, the patient was in good shape, we gave him drugs increasing production of red blood cells, we took care of the hemoglobin level – says Prof. Tomasz Wróbel from the Medical University in Wroclaw.

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