Tulane University Hospital and Clinic
Location
Bone Marrow Transplant Program
1415 Tulane Avenue (HC-62), DM 16
New Orleans, LA 70112
Direct phone: (504) 988-6300
http://www.tmc.tulane.edu/cancer/bmt.html
Total transplants by cell source
- Marrow: 2
- PBSC: 20
- Cord Blood: 0
- Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 87
About the center
Overview
Tulane University Hospital and Clinic offers related/unrelated allogeneic and autologous transplants to adult patients with diseases including, but not limited to, AML, ALL, CML, CLL, Multiple Myeloma, Hodgkin's/non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, amyloidoisis, aplastic anemia, myelofibrosis, MDS and certain autoimmune diseases.
This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1994 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since December 2001.
Attending physicians
Adult - Nakhle Saba, Hana Safah
Transplants performed
Marrow/PBSC only
Cord blood transplants performed on
Not performed
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 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 32 patients.
The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 71.9%.
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 61.1% and 89.3%.
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.
Total transplants
Total transplants
109
Transplants reported (From January 1, 2020 to December 31st, 2021 as reported by the centers)
Marrow | PBSC | Cord blood | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Allogeneic | ||||
Related donor | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11 |
Unrelated donor | 2 | 9 | 0 | 11 |
Total allogeneic | 2 | 20 | 0 | 22 |
Autologous | ||||
Both marrow & PBSC 87 |
-- | 87 | ||
Total combined | ||||
109 | 0 | 109 |
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 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 11 |
Unrelated | 0 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 11 |
Autologous | 0 | 8 | 48 | 31 | 87 |
Total | 0 | 17 | 61 | 31 | 109 |
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:
Shelia Reid
(504) 988-1901
Email: sheila.reid@lcmchealth.org
Financial representative:
Teione Robinson
(504) 988-6318
Email:
teione.robinson@lcmchealth.org
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