The baby, of Hungarian origin, underwent a bone marrow transplant
SCIACCA – The 2-year-old Hungarian child undergoing a bone marrow transplant is cured of leukemia through the use of compatible stem cells stored at the Umbilical Cord Bank of Sciacca, identified thanks to a special international database and sent to the Hungarian country. last October. To communicate it is the Asp of Agrigento. The course has been completed, but today the child is officially cured of the disease.
The cord blood donated to the child was among those cryopreserved at the facility which is located inside the “Giovanni Paolo II” hospital in Sciacca. The bag of cord blood that saved the life of the Hungarian child, donated by a Sicilian mother, was made available by the ASP of Agrigento thanks to the close collaboration with the National Transplant Center, the National Blood Center and the National Hospital Registry. Galliera of Genoa. “The successful outcome of the procedure – affirms the Asp extraordinary commissioner, Mario Zappia – fills us with joy for the new-found well-being of the child and his family. It is at the same time a reason for satisfaction for the efficiency demonstrated by the Saccense cordon bank, a true life-saving heritage that goes beyond national borders. From today, it is appropriate to say, the cities of Budapest and Sciacca are linked by an umbilical cord that comes out of the suggestions of metaphor and becomes real and concrete “.
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