Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant

Pediatric bone marrow transplant is a medical procedure used to treat children with blood disorders or cancers, like leukemia. It involves replacing damaged or unhealthy bone marrow—the soft tissue inside bones that produces blood cells—with healthy marrow from a donor. This can help rebuild the child's immune system and restore healthy blood cell production. The process includes preparing the child's body with chemotherapy or radiation to eliminate diseased cells and then transplanting the donor marrow. While it can be life-saving, it requires careful management to prevent complications such as infections or graft-versus-host disease.