Daily Times

An infant successfully went through a bone marrow transplant at the National Institute of Blood Diseases and Bone Marrow Transplantation (NIBD) in Karachi.

Reportedly, the infant was diagnosed with Omens Syndrome (SCID RAG-2 homozygous) when he was only 12 days old in June 2018. The child, who was the youngest in Pakistan to ever undergo the treatment, was donated a part of the marrow by his mother.

According to Dr Tahir Sultan Shamsi of NIBD, the child fully recovered after receiving the haploidentical BMT from his mother. “NIBD’s youngest BMT recipient has successfully recovered after receiving haploidentical bone marrow transplant from his mother. He was diagnosed with Omens Syndrome (SCID RAG-2 homozygous) when he was 12 days old in June 18. He has a normal lymphocyte count now, 150 days after BMT,” wrote Shamsi on Twitter. He further mentioned that the child’s elder sibling had passed away last year.

Published in Daily Times, November 25^th 2018.