A Guide to Protecting Your Health after Transplant: Recommended Tests and Procedures provides guidelines that patients and physicians can use to understand post-transplant complications and 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:
To order printed copies:
You can order printed guideline kits from the 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.
References
These guidelines are based on published recommendations written by physicians who are members of these leading transplant organizations:
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.
Published concurrently in Bone Marrow Transplant. 2006; 37(3): 249-261.
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