Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital
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Transplant Summary
Overview
Our FACT-accredited program was established in 1986 and has been performing unrelated transplants since 1990. We have three Ronald McDonald houses and 4 individual family apartments. Our Bone Marrow Transplant unit is HEPA filtered and parents can spend the night. Our team is dedicated to using an integrated family-centered approach to provide excellent patient care and innovative research opportunities.This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1986 and has been an NMDP transplant center since February 1998.
Attending physicians
Adult - Natalie Booth, Deepakbabu Chellapandian, Minelys Alicea Marrero, Benjamin Oshrine
Pediatric - Natalie Booth, Deepakbabu Chellapandian, Minelys Alicea Marrero, Benjamin OshrineTransplants performed
Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cordCord blood transplants
Pediatric onlyOther programs and services
Our transplant center has an Academic Advisor on staff as well as Child -life Therapists, a Music Therapist, a chaplain and two Family Advocates to assist patients and families in their transplant journey. The Ronald McDonald House is free of charge, donations are welcome. and our Social Worker can provide information to nearby hotels that offer discounts if our Ronald McDonald Houses are fully occupied.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 52 patients.The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 90.4%.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 79.4% and 96.4%.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
69
Transplants reported by the centers (from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023)
Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total AllogeneicRelated donorMarrow22PBSC10Cord blood0Total32Unrelated donorMarrow7PBSC2Cord blood0Total9Total allogeneicMarrow29PBSC12Cord blood0Total41AutologousMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 28PBSC—Cord blood—Total28Total combinedMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 69PBSC—Cord blood0Total69All 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 0-182819-44445-64065+0Total32Unrelated 0-18919-44045-64065+0Total9Autologous 0-182819-44045-64065+0Total28Total 0-186519-44445-64065+0Total69Treatments 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
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
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
501 6th Ave south St. Petersburg, FL 33701 Phone:727-767-4176 For more information about this program: https://www.hopkinsallchildrens.org/Services/Cancer-Institute/Patient-and-Family-Support/CanSurvive-Clinic (Opens in a new tab)Overview
The CanSurvive Clinic provides coordinated, multidisciplinary survivorship care, including annual visits with doctors (such as pediatric oncologists and other pediatric subspecialists), an oncology social worker and other members of the Johns Hopkins All Children's wellness team. Clinic patients receive treatment summaries with information about their diagnosis, treatment received, complications of therapy, potential late effects of therapy and recommended screening studies for late effects. Patients and families can choose to share this information with current and future health care providers. Both the written reports and the interaction during annual visits are designed to empower patients and their families to seek and receive optimal health care. Who Is Eligible? In order to be seen in the CanSurvive Clinic, patients must be in clinical remission at least five years from their most recent cancer diagnosis, and at least two years from completion of their last therapy. Additionally, patients who have undergone bone marrow transplantation for a cancer or noncancerous illness can be seen in the clinic.
Staff
Program Director:Louise James, RNProgram Coordinator:Mindy Duren, ARNPMedical Specialties in Program
Allergy/immunology, cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, general surgery, gynecology, hematology, hepatology, infectious disease, nephrology, neurology, oncology, ophthalmology/optometry, orthopedics, otolaryngology, palliative care, psychiatry/psychology, pulmonology, rheumatology, urology.Medical Services Offered
Chronic GVHD management, fertility counseling, reproductive health, genetic counseling, nutrition/dietetics, occupational therapy, pain management, physical therapy and rehabilitation, sexual health, social services, vaccinations.Telemedicine services are available.Patient Eligibility
Children- Allogeneic and Autologous transplant recipients
- 3 after transplant.
- Patients who were transplanted as a child at this center with no upper age limit
- Does accept patients who were transplanted at another hospital
- Will admit pediatric patients who transferred into the program if they are under age 21
- Will accept adult patients who were transplanted as a child at another center up to age 21