If I have a blood transfusion for another aplastic condition, can I live to a normal life?

Mondo Health Updated on 2024-02-01

Patients with aplastic anemia who have been transfused with blood may not live to live a normal life. Although blood transfusions can improve the patient's symptoms and maintain normal vital activities, it does not solve the underlying problem, which is the loss of bone marrow function.

For patients with severe conditions, long-term blood transfusion may also lead to a series of complications, such as infection, allergic reactions, etc., which will affect the patient's quality of life and longevity.

For the current blood transfusion maintenance**, it is not clear to guarantee the duration of the efficacy and the survival age, and it is difficult for patients with aplastic disease who are dependent on blood transfusion to maintain their old age by blood transfusion alone.

Because there have been cases of aplastic aplastic maintenance with simple blood transfusion in clinical practice, the verified result is that patients can obtain good results through blood transfusion in the early stage and can maintain a normal life for a period of time, but with the frequent number of blood transfusions and the shortening of the interval to maintain the efficacy, the quality of life of patients is getting worse and worse, causing a series of complications risk, and some cases also progress to other hematologic diseases in the later stage.

It is important to understand that excessive blood transfusion can also inhibit the hematopoietic function of the bone marrow, and the most important thing is that the effect of blood transfusion will not be the same. Long-term frequent blood transfusion can lead to high ferritin, which in turn affects the patient's quality of life and increases the burden on the organs.

Although there is the blessing of iron removal**, it is still inevitable that there is a risk of complications (acute heart failure due to overload of the heart due to a large amount of blood transfusion or too fast blood transfusion).

All in all, blood transfusion** is a good first aid**, but it cannot be used as a major aplastic atrophy**, and it does not allow the body to regain its ability to make blood.

Once the blood transfusion** has occurred, it will be difficult for the patient to maintain long-term survival, and the spirit will become worse and worse.

Therefore, aplastic anemia requires blood transfusion, which also needs to be combined with other measures and carried out under the guidance of a doctor.

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