Loma Linda University Medical Center
Location
11234 Anderson Street, 4th Floor
#4828
Loma Linda, CA 92354
Direct phone: (909) 558-7498
https://lluch.org/services/bone-marrow-transplant
Total transplants by cell source
- Marrow: 4
- PBSC: 19
- Cord Blood: 1
- Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 19
About the center
Overview
Loma Linda University Children's Hospital's Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant is a FACT accredited program. The BMT program offers a comprehensive range of transplant services including myeloablative and reduced intensity matched related and unrelated donor transplants, cord blood transplants and haploidentical donor transplants. Our program has state of the art facilities for both inpatient and outpatient care that includes a 33 bed inpatient unit. This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 2002 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since October 2005.
This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 2002 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since October 2005.
Attending physicians
Adult - Hisham Abdel-Azim, Mojtaba Akhtari
Pediatric - Albert Kheradpour, Quan Zhao
Transplants performed
Marrow/PBSC and single cord
Cord blood transplants performed on
Pediatric only
Other programs and services
Loma Linda has multiple programs that are available at our center. Places for family's housing includes: Ronald McDonald House, the Doug-Out House and shuttle services from some of the housing to clinic. For inpatient we offer Cafeteria vouchers on case by case, as well as a pantry that is available to the parents only, filled with bottled drinks/water and light meals. We have a chapel and chaplains as well as in-house interpreter services.
Overall center survival
Patient survival information for this center
This center's actual 1-year survival results are similar to 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 2018, 2019, 2020, 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 26 patients.
The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 84.6%.
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 71.1% and 97.1%.
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
3
Transplants reported (From January 1, 2020 to December 31st, 2021 as reported by the centers)
Marrow | PBSC | Cord blood | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Allogeneic | ||||
Related donor | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Unrelated donor | ||||
Total allogeneic | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Autologous | ||||
Both marrow & PBSC 2 |
-- | 2 | ||
Total combined | ||||
3 | 0 | 3 |
Number of pediatric transplants
Total pediatric transplants
40
Transplants reported (From January 1, 2020 to December 31st, 2021 as reported by the centers)
Marrow | PBSC | Cord blood | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Allogeneic | ||||
Related donor | 2 | 18 | 0 | 20 |
Unrelated donor | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Total allogeneic | 4 | 18 | 1 | 23 |
Autologous | ||||
Both marrow & PBSC 17 |
-- | 17 | ||
Total combined | ||||
39 | 1 | 40 |
Transplants by disease
All diseases
Number of transplants by age reported from January 1, 2020 to December 31st, 2021 (includes marrow, PBSC and cord blood)
0-18 | 19-44 | 45-64 | 65+ | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Related | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
Unrelated | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Autologous | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 19 |
Total | 39 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 42 |
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:
Heather Cox
Email: hcox@llu.edu
If you have questions about costs and financial services at this center, please call the transplant center's direct phone number.
Be The Match 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