Loma Linda University Medical Center
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Transplant Summary
Overview
Loma Linda University Medical Center is a FACT accredited program. The Transplant & Cellular Therapy (TCT) 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 pediatric unit and a 17 bed inpatient adult unit.This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 2002 and has been an NMDP transplant center since October 2005.
Attending physicians
Adult - Hisham Abdel-Azim, Mojtaba Akhtari, Alva Heather, Khazal Sajad, Aditya Sharma
Pediatric - Hisham Abdel-Azim, Alva Heather, Albert Kheradpour, Khazal Sajad, Aditya SharmaTransplants performed
Marrow/PBSC and single cordCord blood transplants
Adult and pediatricOther 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.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 2020, 2021, 2022 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 37 patients.The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 83.8%.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 76.2% and 97%.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 (Opens in a new tab) at bloodcell.transplant.hrsa.gov.* The expected survival rate for a transplant center can be below, similar to, or above the range listed. This is based on comparing patient survival at all centers that treated patients with similar diseases.
The survival rate cannot tell how you will do with your transplant. Talk to your doctor to understand your prognosis or the likely course of your disease.
Total pediatric transplants
38
Transplants reported by the centers (from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023)
Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total AllogeneicRelated donorMarrow11PBSC11Cord blood0Total22Unrelated donorMarrow5PBSC3Cord blood1Total9Total allogeneicMarrow16PBSC14Cord blood1Total31AutologousMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 7PBSC—Cord blood—Total7Total combinedMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 37PBSC—Cord blood1Total38Total adult transplants
18
Transplants reported by the centers (from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023)
Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total AllogeneicRelated donorMarrow0PBSC4Cord blood0Total4Unrelated donorMarrow0PBSC1Cord blood0Total1Total allogeneicMarrow0PBSC5Cord blood0Total5AutologousMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 13PBSC—Cord blood—Total13Total combinedMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 18PBSC—Cord blood0Total18All Diseases
Number of transplants by age reported from January 1, 2022 to December 31st, 2023(includes marrow, PBSC and cord blood)
0-18 19-44 45-64 65+ Total Related 0-182319-44145-64265+0Total26Unrelated 0-181019-44045-64065+0Total10Autologous 0-18719-44045-64865+5Total20Total 0-184019-44145-641065+5Total56Treatments 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 can be found:
- U.S. Transplant Data by Center (Opens in a new tab) report at blood cell.transplant.hrsa.gov
- List of diseases
Transplant center resources
If you have questions about costs and financial services at this center, please call the transplant center’s direct phone number.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
More resources
- Choosing a transplant center
- Preparing for transplant
- Learn about transplant outcomes and treatment decisions (Opens in a new tab)
- Support and resources (including non-English materials)
- U.S. Transplant Data by Center (Opens in a new tab) at blood cell.transplant.hrsa.gov
Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant
250 E. Caroline Street San Bernardino, CA 92408 Phone:909-651-1939 For more information about this program: https://childrens-hospital.lomalindahealth.org/our-services/bone-marrow-transplant (Opens in a new tab)Overview
Loma Linda University Children's Hospital's Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) program is in its 16th year and is accredited by the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT) for its highest quality patient care and clinical laboratory performance, since 2007. Our outpatient clinic has dedicated infusion chairs with specifically trained heath care professionals to help with seamless care of patients from diagnosis to long term survival.
Staff
Program Director:Rishikesh Chavan, MDProgram Coordinator:Krista Golden, RNMedical Specialties in Program
Cardiology, dentistry, dermatology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, nephrology, oncology, ophthalmology/optometry, palliative care, psychiatry/psychology, pulmonology.Medical Services Offered
Chronic GVHD management, nutrition/dietetics, occupational therapy, physical therapy and rehabilitation, social services.Telemedicine services are available.Patient Eligibility
Children- Allogeneic and Autologous transplant recipients
- Patients who were transplanted as a child at this center up to age 24
- Does accept patients who were transplanted at another hospital
- Will admit pediatric patients who transferred into the program if they are under age 25
- Will accept adult patients who were transplanted as a child at another center up to age 25