5.
For a PBSC donation, you will receive 4 or
5 daily injections of . Filgrastin, a stem
cell growth factor medication that increases
the number of stem cells released from your marrow
into your blood stream so they can be collected
through an apheresis procedure
6. During apheresis,
which is done at a blood center or hospital,
your blood is removed through a sterile needle
placed in a vein in one arm and passed through
an apheresis machine that separates out the stem
cells. The remaining blood, minus the stem cells,
is returned to you through a sterile needle in
your other arm.
7. Apheresis donors
can experience bone pain prior to the donation
procedure as a result of receiving Filgrastim.
These effects diminish over one to two days after
the last dose of Filgrastim is given. |