Blood Transfusion

Blood Transfusion:
Blood Transfusion is one of the most regularly practiced treatments for Thalassemia. To be precise, the treatment is not blood transfusion, but transfusion of red blood cells. These transfusions are necessary to provide the patient with a temporary supply of healthy red blood cells with normal hemoglobin capable of carrying the oxygen that the patient's body needs.

Today, most patients with a major form of Thalassemia receive red blood cell transfusions every two to three weeks. There are three reasons for blood transfusions.


a. To correct anemia and make sure that tissues get a normal amount of oxygen. This allows thalassemics to live and grow normally.
b. To let the bone marrow rest, so that the bones can develop normally and do not get deformed.
c. To slow down or prevent any increase in the size of spleen.

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