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Blood and Marrow Transplantation Types

BMT, or blood and marrow transplant, is a procedure to replace unhealthy or destroyed bone marrow with new bone marrow stem cells.

There are three kinds of blood and marrow transplant:

Autologous transplant, also called self-donor transplant or rescue transplant: Autologous transplant is when a person's own stem cells are removed before receiving radiation or chemotherapy treatment. Then, the stem cells are put back in the person's body.
Allogeneic transplant is when another person's stem cells are removed. Usually the donor and the recipient have the same genetic makeup. Special blood tests are done to make sure a donor and recipient are a good match. At Children's Hospital, we perform four kinds of allogeneic transplant:
- Identical twin donor
- Related donor
- Unrelated donor
- "Mismatched" donor
Umbilical cord blood transplant. Stem cells are removed from a newborn baby's umbilical cord and are stored until needed for transplant.