Help Me Howard: Stem Cell Transplant, Pt. 2

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In a Help Me Howard follow-up, a woman who was denied experimental treatment for Leukemia by her health insurance now has something to smile about. She got the good news after Howard got on the case. Watch it >>>.

Comments: 2

Posted by Remi at July 21, 2008 2:35 AM

Nurses harvest blood stem cells from a donor's peripheral blood using a process called apheresis. This process involves removal of whole blood from the donor. As blood is drawn from the donor, circulating stem cells (and sometimes mature immune cells) are extracted. A centrifuge-type machine then separates the components. The blood itself, minus the stem cells, is returned to the donor. Apheresis requires no anesthesia but can take several hours.

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