{"id":15150,"date":"2022-04-22T05:42:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T05:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=15150"},"modified":"2022-04-22T05:44:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T05:44:28","slug":"indian-doctor-performs-1st-pediatric-stem-cell-transplant-in-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=15150","title":{"rendered":"**  Indian doctor performs 1st pediatric stem cell transplant in UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A Malayali doctor in Abu Dhabi wrote himself into record books when he performed the first pediatric stem cell bone marrow transplant in the UAE.<br><\/strong><br>Dr Zainul Aabideen, a native of Kannur in Kerala, presently Head of the Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at Burjeel Medical City successfully performed the advanced allogeneic procedure on a five-year-old girl from Uganda with sickle cell disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Billed as the first such surgery done in the UAE, the patient\u2019s 10-year-old sister donated her bone marrow for the transplant treatment at Burjeel Medical City, a flagship hospital of VPS Healthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sickle cell disease is a genetic disorder, which results in an abnormality in the hemoglobin found in red blood cells, causing them to become sickle-shaped and leading to several complications including anemia, swelling in the hands and feet, frequent pain, acute chest syndrome, and sometimes stroke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prior to the treatment, the child has been regularly admitted to the hospital due to complications arising from her disease since birth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">awaz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Malayali doctor in Abu Dhabi wrote himself into record books when he performed the first pediatric stem cell bone marrow transplant in the UAE.Dr Zainul Aabideen, a native of Kannur in Kerala, presently Head of the Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at Burjeel Medical City successfully performed the advanced allogeneic procedure on a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=15150\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">**  Indian doctor performs 1st pediatric stem cell transplant in UAE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,10,15,16,19,20,11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazing-feats","category-business-economy","category-nris","category-pios","category-records-in-asia","category-records-all-other-excl-asia-india","category-records-india-national","category-science-technology","category-top-10-in-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15152,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15150\/revisions\/15152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}