Texas Children's Hospital
6621 Fannin Street
WT 8-150
Houston,
TX
77030
Direct phone: (832) 824-1000
https://www.texaschildrens.org/departments/bone-marrow-transplant-stem-cell-transplant-program/
Texas Children's Hospital
Primary location
Secondary location
Houston Methodist Hospital
6565 Fannin Street
Suite M964
Houston, TX 77030
Direct phone: (713) 441-6274
https://www.bcm.edu/academic-centers/cell-and-gene-therapy
6565 Fannin Street
Suite M964
Houston, TX 77030
Direct phone: (713) 441-6274
https://www.bcm.edu/academic-centers/cell-and-gene-therapy
Total transplants by cell source
From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022
- Marrow: 131
- PBSC: 118
- Cord Blood: 18
- Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 308
Performs adult; pediatric transplants
About the center
Overview
Our mission: Develop therapy for diseases affecting children and adults. Discoveries in gene-vector design, stem cell biology and immunotherapy allow implementation of agents to improve conditioning therapy, cytotoxic T cell therapy to reduce infection and cell-based therapy to prevent relapse.
This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1979 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since June 1997.
Attending physicians
Adult - George Carrum, Helen Heslop, LaQuisa Hill, Rammurti Kamble, Premal Lulla, Carlos Ramos
Pediatric - Nabil Ahmed, Saleh Bhar, John Craddock, Erin Doherty, Anil George, Meenakshi Hegde, Robert Krance, Gabriela Llaurador Caraballo, Caridad Martinez, Erin Morales Ubico, Bilal Omer, Baheyeldin Salem, David Steffin, Khaled Yassine
Transplants performed
Marrow/PBSC and single cord
Cord blood transplants performed on
Pediatric only
Other programs and services
Services provided at Texas Children's Hospital (pediatrics):
All patients meet with a BMT social worker pre-transplant who prepares a detailed psychosocial assessment which is used to determine the needs of individual patients. Our Social Worker offers a variety of services to patients and their families such as family counseling and referrals, pre-admission and discharge information, planning and assistance obtaining resources such as housing, food, transportation and financial services.
Our Child Life specialists focuses on the emotional and developmental needs of children throughout the transplant process. Through play therapy, our child life specialist strives to reduce the stress of the patient and enables them to cope with the experience in a positive manner. Specific services available include age appropriate education, preparation and support for medical procedures, therapeutic play and sibling teaching. The child life specialist is also involved in assisting school re-entry to allow a positive and consistent transition into school.
Texas Children's Hospital has a chaplain service that is available for support and to assist families with any spiritual or religious concerns you may have.
Teachers from the Houston Independent School District (HISD) are available during the school year for hospitalized patients. Their primary purpose is to help students maintain academic skills during hospitalization. The teachers will modify the amount of material presented according to how the student is feeling each day. If your child is in a different school district, he/she will be enrolled in HISD while in Houston and then be re-enrolled back into their home school once the patient returns home. The teachers will have ongoing contact with the home school and will teach the same curriculum with the same textbooks as the home school if possible.
Overall center survival
Patient survival information for this center
This center's actual 1-year survival results are below the expected rate for this center.
The survival information we have for this center includes ONLY:
- Patients who had their FIRST ALLOGENEIC transplant (cells from a related or unrelated donor/cord blood) during 2019, 2020, 2021, and
- Who had their transplant at a U.S. transplant center, and
- Who had follow-up information provided by the transplant center for analysis
For this center, we have survival information for 320 patients.
The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 73.9%.
Compared to similar patients transplanted at all centers in the U.S., we expect that the 1-year survival for patients at this center to be in a range between 75.4% and 83.8%.
For help with understanding these statistics, please see Understanding Transplant Outcomes.
For overall survival for all patients transplanted with a specific disease, please see U.S. Patient Survival report at bloodcell.transplant.hrsa.gov.
Number of adult transplants
Total adult transplants
360
Transplants reported (From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 as reported by the centers)
| Marrow | PBSC | Cord blood | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allogeneic | ||||
| Related donor | 15 | 28 | 0 | 43 |
| Unrelated donor | ||||
| Total allogeneic | 23 | 102 | 0 | 125 |
| Autologous | ||||
| Both marrow & PBSC 235 |
-- | 235 | ||
| Total combined | ||||
| 360 | 0 | 360 | ||
Number of pediatric transplants
Total pediatric transplants
215
Transplants reported (From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 as reported by the centers)
| Marrow | PBSC | Cord blood | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allogeneic | ||||
| Related donor | 64 | 6 | 2 | 72 |
| Unrelated donor | 44 | 10 | 16 | 70 |
| Total allogeneic | 108 | 16 | 18 | 142 |
| Autologous | ||||
| Both marrow & PBSC 73 |
-- | 73 | ||
| Total combined | ||||
| 197 | 18 | 215 | ||
Transplants by disease
All diseases
Number of transplants by age reported from January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 (includes marrow, PBSC and cord blood)
| 0-18 | 19-44 | 45-64 | 65+ | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Related | 79 | 12 | 19 | 5 | 116 |
| Unrelated | 73 | 20 | 25 | 34 | 152 |
| Autologous | 75 | 34 | 110 | 89 | 308 |
| Total | 227 | 66 | 154 | 128 | 576 |
Treatments may be similar for diseases within a group. It might be helpful to look at centers that have done transplants for a specific disease and centers that have done transplants for any corresponding broad disease categories.
Centers are not required to report autologous transplants so the numbers might be incomplete.
More information about transplants for this disease can be found:
- U.S. Transplant Data by Center report at bloodcell.transplant.hrsa.gov
- List of diseases
Additional information
Transplant center resources
Transplant center coordinator:
Bernadette Burttschell
832-825-9279
Email: baburtts@texaschildrens.org
Financial representative:
Betty Jacob
713-441-9607
Email:
bjacob@houstonmethodist.org
NMDP patient navigators
Patient navigators can answer your questions about choosing a transplant center and provide support and education to help you throughout your transplant journey.
Inside the United States: 1 (888) 999-6743
Outside the United States: 1 (763) 406-3410.
(Long distance or international charges may apply.)
Email: patientinfo@nmdp.org
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