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Prof. of the General Director of Kaunas Clinics prof. skilled. Dr. According to Renaldas Jurkevičius, this achievement of a multidisciplinary team is important not only for the hospital, but also for the development of medicine in Lithuania in general.
“Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplants have been performed successfully for five years, specialists constantly update their knowledge, improve their professional skills, therefore, by accumulating the necessary experience, we have gone one step further to help patients with oncological diseases. ” Close work by hematologists, oncologists, radiation therapists, and other physicians has led to the success of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation through whole body irradiation. “
According to Domas Vaitiekus, Head of the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Sector at the Kaunas Clinics, in certain forms of cancer and using whole body exposure before allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, patient survival and chances of recovery significantly increased than with chemotherapy alone.
“Until now, there has been a lot of discussion that whole body exposure increases the number of complications, but the latest data shows that this is not true and that this treatment is effective.” This method will be performed before allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplants for all patients who need it, “says D. Vaitiekus in a press release.
For the first time in Lithuania, the patient’s entire body was exposed during quarantine at Kaunas clinics.
“Exposure of the whole body is one of the most complex radiotherapy methods, because during the procedure the entire body of the patient is irradiated, avoiding excessive exposure of the internal organs,” says the radiologist oncologist. Viktoras Rudžianskas. –
In preparation for this procedure, a few months ago, together with the medical physicist Tadas Didvalis, we completed an internship in the Department of Hematology and Radiotherapy at the University Hospital of Leipzig. We are pleased to have been able to successfully apply the theoretical and practical knowledge acquired during the internship to the patient of the Kaunas clinics ”.
The first allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant in the Kaunas clinics was performed by the Head of the Hematology Department of the Oncology and Hematology Clinic, doctor hematologist doc. Rolandas Gerbutavičius, treating doctor, hematologist dr. Milda Rudžianskienė and the hematologist Domas Vaitiekus.
Jonas Šurkus, clinical toxicologist at the Nephrology Clinic, and his team ensured the safe collection and preparation of peripheral hematopoietic stem cells from donors.
A total of 10 hematopoietic stem cell transplants were performed in Kaunas clinics during quarantine due to COVID-19. In 2019, 41 hematopoietic stem cell transplants were performed at Kaunas clinics.
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