The bone marrow It is a flexible human body tissue found within the long bones, vertebrae, ribs, sternum, skull bones, pelvis, and shoulder girdle. This tissue makes up 4% of a person’s total weight and is also an important part of the lymphatic system, which produces lymphocytes for the body’s immune system.
There are several types of bone marrow which should not be confused with the spinal cord found in the vertebral column and which is responsible for the transmission of nerve impulses throughout our body. The types of flexible bone tissue They are as follows: red, yellow, gelatinous, and gray bone marrow.
The bone marrow You can get sick from infections like tuberculosis or autoimmune diseases like cancer in the flexible fabric which is known as leukemia. However, at present, transplants of bone marrow from the bone of a living person and transfused into the recipient’s circulatory system only if there is organ compatibility between the donor and recipient.
It is within this framework that the National Central Single Coordinating Institute for Ablation and Implantation (INCUCAI), which directs the National Registry of Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells (CPH), It is celebrated that in our country there have been, so far this year, 91 effective donations of bone marrow.
This figure is the highest reached since the creation of the CPH and represents a historical record of Argentine donors in one year. They exceeded 74 donors in 2021. It is also known that some 1,026 MHC transplants have been performed to date.
According to an INCUCAI publication on the social network Twitter, only between 25 and 30% of people who suffer from hematological diseases such as leukemia, aplastic anemia, lymphoma, myeloma, metabolic errors or immunological deficiencies, have the possibility of finding a compatible donor in their family group.
How to donate bone marrow
If you want to improve the quality of life of people suffering from diseases in your bone marrowa donation can be made at one of the donation centers associated with the Registry, which can be found on the map at https://www.argentina.gob.ar/donar-medula.
The requirements are: be between 18 and 40 years old, be in good health and weigh more than 50 kilos. If these characteristics are met, marrow can be donated to perform the respective HPC transplants and help people.
