Irkutsk honours donors Survivor recalls transplant

Dec 8, 2021

Vesti-Irkutsk reports that fourteen bone marrow donors were honoured with Federal Medical-Biological Agency medals at Irkutsk State Medical University during Give a Person Life, where 91 people also enrolled in the federal registry and gave blood for typing. The report places this in regional recruitment of about 27,600 registrants and a national registry above half a million; Maxim Zarubin discusses the need for international matching. Its complete embedded patient account recounts Irina Pashchenko's 2019 acute-leukaemia diagnosis, initial remission and relapse two years later. Denis Remizov describes agreeing to donate after a call from Kirov. The reporter explains stem-cell collection and preparation and gives December 8, 2021 as Pashchenko's transplant date. After two years of anonymity, donor and recipient met; she describes her gratitude and continuing life with her daughter. Matching probabilities and procedure descriptions remain attributed to this report.

Irina Pashchenko underwent the bone marrow/stem-cell transplant reported by Vesti-Irkutsk on December 8, 2021 after acute leukaemia returned following an initial remission. The report identifies fellow Irkutsk resident Denis Remizov as her matching donor and recounts his agreement to help after a call from Kirov. Pashchenko attributes her continued life with her daughter to the procedure. The report says they met after two years of anonymity; it does not give that meeting an exact date.