In just a year and a half, the Department of Haematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation at St Panteleimon’s Hospital of Lviv’s First Medical Association has treated more than 350 patients and successfully performed 8 bone marrow transplants.
“We opened our department only in July 2023, and by the end of the year we had already treated 130 patients. And in 2024, we treated another 224 patients. The most common diseases in our patients are lymphoma, multiple myeloma and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. It is important that our onco-haematologists are able to treat patients with acute leukaemia using high-dose chemotherapy protocols. This is possible due to the fact that we have special isolated wards where patients must stay during therapy. After all, their immune system is suppressed and they become very vulnerable to infections, and staying in isolation reduces the risk of infection,” the First Medical Association of Lviv notes.
Also this year, the department’s specialists began performing bone marrow transplants. A total of 8 such transplants have already been performed. One of them was performed on an 8-year-old child with a brain tumour. The other 7 are for adults with multiple myeloma. At the moment, all patients are in remission and feeling well.
Doctors remind that bone marrow transplantation is free in Ukraine and is fully covered by the state. The unit is also provided with all the essential medicines for the treatment of haematological patients in accordance with current protocols.
As a reminder, the First Medical Association of Lviv is currently one of 9 medical institutions in Ukraine that perform stem cell transplants. They are actively developing this area of work.
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Last year, the Department of Haematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation was launched at the First Medical Association of Lviv. It is here that a closed cycle of care for haematological patients takes place: from diagnosis, primary treatment and relapse treatment to bone marrow transplantation.
The department, with a total area of about 2000 sq m, occupies two floors. The ground floor is occupied by the haematology department and a day hospital: 8 wards with a total capacity of 18 beds. The second floor has 12 single boxes for bone marrow transplantation. The department also has an apheresis room (a room for stem cell collection), an operating room, and three manipulation rooms.