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Post-Transplant Guidelines for Patients and Physicians

A Guide to Protecting Your Health after Transplant: Recommended Tests and Procedures provides guidelines that patients and their physicians can use to schedule long-term follow-up care after a marrow, peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) or cord blood transplant.

The guide includes:

Patient Booklet

Information about side effects that may occur months or years after transplant
Charts with recommended tests and procedures for patients' six-month, twelve-month and yearly post-transplant check-ups
Space for patients to record important information about their own post-transplant care

Physicians' Guidelines

A checklist of recommended screening and preventive practices to help physicians care for their patients post transplant

To download:

Autologous Post-Transplant Patients' Guide (PDF) (for patients transplanted with their own marrow or blood stem cells)
Allogeneic Post-Transplant Patients' Guide (PDF) (for patients transplanted with bone marrow or blood stem cells from a donor)
Physicians' Guidelines for Post-Transplant Care (PDF)

To order printed copies:

You can order printed guideline kits from the CIBMTR's research partner, the National Marrow Donor Program. Each printed kit includes the patient booklet (either the autologous or the allogeneic version) and three copies of the physician guidelines.

Order form for patients: https://www.marrow-donor.org/CONTACT/Request_Materials/Patient/patient_materials.html
Order form for physicians: https://www.marrow-donor.org/CONTACT/Request_Materials/Medical
/medical_professionals_materials.html

References

These guidelines are based on published recommendations written by physicians who are members of these leading transplant organizations:

The Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR)
The European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (www.ebmt.org)
The American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (www.asbmt.org)

The complete guidelines for physicians were published in the medical journals Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Bone Marrow Transplantation.

Rizzo JD, Wingard JR, Tichelli A, et al. Recommended screening and preventive practices for long-term survivors after hematopoietic cell transplantation: joint recommendations of the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, and the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT/CIBMTR/ASBMT). Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2006; 12(2):138-151. http://www.bbmt.org/article/PIIS1083879105006762/fulltext

Published concurrently in Bone Marrow Transplant. 2006; 37(3): 249-261. http://www.nature.com/bmt/journal/v37/n3/full/1705243a.html