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Primary Location:

Secondary Location:

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Blood & Marrow Transplantation Program
Dept of Internal Med, C332 GH
200 Hawkins Drive
Iowa City, IA 52242-1009
Direct phone: (319) 356-3337
Toll-free phone: (800) 944-8220
http://www.uihealthcare.org/Clinic.aspx?id=15308

University of Iowa Hosp & Clinics (Peds Prog)

Department of Pediatrics
Pediatric Blood & Marrow Transplant Program
200 Hawkins Drive, 2 JCP
Iowa City, IA 52242
Direct phone: (319) 356-4324
http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/pediatrics/

Program Description:

Excellence in patient care is the centerpiece of our program. It rests on continued research, both in the laboratory and at the bedside. As part of the NCI-designated Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, we are fully committed to research that leads to improvements in the outcome of this therapy.

Contact Information:

If you have transplant-related questions, please contact Lizeth Garcia-Jennings, transplant center coordinator, at (319) 384-9105 or by e-mail at lizeth-garcia-jennings@uiowa.edu.

Program Type:

Adult and Pediatric

Attending Physicians:

(Medical Doctors)

Adult -

Thomas Carter, Margarida de Magalhaes-Silverman, Guido Tricot

Pediatric -

Ghada Abusin, Ayman El-Sheikh, M. Sue O'Dorisio, Janice Staber, Raymond Tannous

Transplants Performed:

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on:

Adult and pediatric

helpExplain Transplant Center HLA Match Requirements

Estimated Search & Transplant Costs

The costs for a transplant vary greatly from center to center and depend on factors such as health insurance, disease type and disease stage of the patient, as well as center-specific billing policies. Examples of costs in the search and transplant include:

  • The amount and geographic location of donors tested
  • Testing needed to confirm a match
  • Processing and collecting of tissue-typing samples
  • Donor workup testing needed
  • Getting the marrow, PBSC or cord blood unit for transplant

For the best understanding of costs of transplant and follow-up for a specific transplant center, contact the center's Financial Representative.

helpExplain Transplant Costs at Different Centers

Financial Services:


Financial services at this center could include:
  • Health insurance information
  • Financial assistance
  • Patient-related resources

Resources for financial information


If you have questions about costs and financial services at this transplant center, you can contact the center's financial representative.

Many organizations exist to help patients with lodging, transportation and other transplant-related expenses. Visit the National Marrow Donor Program's Patient Organizations database for more information. Financial assistance resources are also listed on this Web site.

Transplant Experience

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1980 and has been an NMDP transplant center since July 1987.

Transplants Reported

(From Jan. 2010 to Dec. 2011
as reported by the centers
)

      Unrelated or Related Donor

Auto-
logous

(PBSC or marrow)

Total

(by transplant type)

Total Non-
Myeloablative transplants*

Marrow

PBSC

Cord
Blood

Unrelated Donor - Adult 3 48 3 --- 54 15
Unrelated Donor - Pediatric 5 0 2 --- 7 0
Related Donor - Adult 1 43 0 --- 44 12
Related Donor - Pediatric 0 1 0 --- 1 0
Autologous - Adult --- --- --- 107 107 ---
Autologous - Pediatric --- --- --- 17 17 ---
Total (by cell source) 9 92 5 124 230 27

*The total Non-Myeloablative transplants column shows a subset of the total number of transplants by type.

To locate centers that perform cord blood transplants, use the search tool on this site.

The NMDP also has Transplants by Disease Charts available showing the number of NMDP coordinated transplants by disease category at each U.S. transplant center.

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Center-Specific Analysis

This analysis includes ONLY patients who received their FIRST ALLOGENEIC* transplant between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2010 using unrelated or related donors, and who had at least a 100-day follow-up.

  1. This center reported survival status data for 121 patients.
  2. The actual one-year survival of these patients is 54%.
  3. Based on a national average for patients like those transplanted at this center, 95% of the time the one-year survival is expected to be between 52% and 69% for patients at this center.
  4. This center's actual results are similar to the expected range for this center.

*Allogeneic means using cells from a person other than the patient.

For help with understanding these statistics, please see Understanding Transplant Outcomes (PDF).

Survival by Patient's Age, Disease Type and Stage

If you do not find your disease in the statistics below, it may be combined with other similar diseases in a category. Please refer to our broad disease categories page for more information.

Additional Information
Further information about this center, including the number and type of transplants performed in each of the last three years, and the support groups offered, may be found in the BMT InfoNet Transplant Center Directory: http://www.bmtinfonet.org/transplantcenters.

BMT InfoNet (Blood & Marrow Transplant Information Network) is a nonprofit organization that provides information and emotional support to transplant patients and their families.

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