In Maa Kauvery Hospital, Trichy, comprehensive care is provided for children affected with various blood disorders, cancer and children undergoing Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT).
The unit is managed by a full time Consultant in Pediatric Hematology Oncology and BMT along with a team of other specialists including Surgical Oncologists, Paediatric Surgeons, Radiation Oncologists, experienced Pediatricians and dedicated paediatric hemato-oncology nurses. We have access to sophisticated laboratory investigations including flowcytometry, minimal residual disease, cytogenetics, FISH, PCR, electrophoresis, gene sequencing, prenatal gene testing, etc.
- Anemia, Thrombocytopenia, Pancytopenia
- Nutritional deficiencies
- Bleeding disorders including Hemophilia, Platelet function defects
- Aplastic anemia and inherited bone marrow failures
- Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
- Primary immunodeficiency
- Thrombotic disorders
- Osteopetrosis
Children with thalassemia major receive transfusion with leucodepleted blood products, iron chelation, disease monitoring & Bone marrow transplantation
- Acute & Chronic Leukemias
- Lymphomas
- Brain tumours
- Bone and soft tissue tumours
- Wilms tumour, Neuroblastoma, Germ cell tumour, Hepatoblastoma
- Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH)
The following procedures are performed in neonates, infants and children, when indicated.
- Bone marrow aspiration
- Bone marrow biopsy
- Intrathecal chemotherapy
- Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT)
BMT is performed in infants and children when indicated
- Matched sibling donor BMT
- Matched unrelated donor BMT
- Haplo identical donor BMT
