A child with acute myeloblastic leukemia is scheduled to have a bone marrow transplant (BMT). The donor is the child's own umbilical cord blood that had been previously harvested and banked. What type of BMT would this be?
a. Autologous
b. Allogeneic
c. Syngeneic
d. Stem cell
A
In an autologous transplant, the child's own marrow or previously harvested and banked cord blood is used. In an allogeneic BMT, histocompatibility has been matched with a related or unrelated donor. In a syngeneic transplant, the child receives bone marrow from an identical twin. A stem cell transplantation uses a unique immature cell present in the peripheral circulation.
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