UBTH Records Another Breakthrough In Sickle Cell Treatment
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A major medical breakthrough was achieved in the country weekend when the management of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) completely drained infected red blood cells from a 27-year-old sickle cell anemia patient and replaced it with un-infected ones.
Breaking the news at a press conference, the chief medical director (CMD) of the hospital, Professor Michael Ibadin, who was visibly elated at the feat, said the success of the procedure was made possible through a collaboration with the University of Basel Switzerland, which provided the technical support and the machine, known as Cobe Spectra that drains the infected blood through one arm while simultaneously replacing it with uninfected blood through the other arm.
Read the full article at Naijatunez
(http://naijatunez.com/ubth-records-another-breakthrough-in-sickle-cell-treatment/)
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