University of Mississippi Medical Center
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Transplant Summary
Overview
The University of Mississippi Medical Center Blood and Marrow Transplant Program offers a range of blood and marrow transplant options for both adult and pediatric patients in Mississippi and surrounding areas. The Program offers a wide range of services including autologous, related and unrelated allogeneic, haploidentical, and cord blood transplants. Patients are treated for diseases including, but not limited to, leukemia, lymphoma, neuroblastoma, multiple myeloma, sickle cell, aplastic anemia, and other bone marrow failure syndromes. The Program offers both inpatient and outpatient services and also provides extacorporeal photopheresis. The Program has been continually accredited by FACT (Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy) since 2002. Our physicians are committed to compassionate and quality care. Our patients receive care in facilities specially designed to meet standards of excellence.This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1992 and has been an NMDP transplant center since March 1998.
Attending physicians
Adult - Carolyn Bigelow, Stephanie Elkins, Vincent Herrin, Carter Milner, Carrie Wynn
Pediatric - Laura Arnold, Jennifer Cox, Dereck Davis, Catherine Gordon, Betty Herrington, Erin Jackson, Melissa McNaull, Amanda StrobelTransplants performed
Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cordCord blood transplants
Pediatric onlyOther programs and services
The University of Mississippi Medical Center has the following services to offer our transplant patients, family, and caregivers to assist them during the transplant process:
-Spiritual care services, Chaplains available from many faiths
-On-site schoolteachers to work with inpatient pediatric patients to assist with keeping them current with their schoolwork.
-Dedicated Bone Marrow Transplant staff which includes a Social Worker, Exercise Physiologist, Advanced Practice Providers, Certified Transplant Nurse Coordinators, and a Transplant Financial Counselor. Also, all nurses providing inpatient and outpatient care on the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit are Chemotherapy Biotherapy Certified.
-Language services which include the Remote Stratus Video System, on-site Certified Spanish, Choctaw, and Sign-language Interpreters. Also available is the Language Line that offers real-time interpretation of 170 different languages.
-Child Life Specialists to assist inpatient pediatric patients in developmentally and age appropriate motivation and medical education throughout the entire treatment and transplant process.
-Laundry and kitchenette facilities available on the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit for patients and caregivers.
-All adult University of Mississippi Medical Center Hematology Physicians are trained and involved in autologous and allogeneic transplantation.
-Dedicated outpatient clinic for post-transplant follow-up care.
-The Program also has a special arrangement with a local hotel which is approximately 7 miles from the hospital. This provides complimentary lodging for patients.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 58 patients.The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 84.3%.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 68.1% and 88%.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 adult transplants
87
Transplants reported by the centers (from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023)
Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total AllogeneicRelated donorMarrow1PBSC10Cord blood0Total11Unrelated donorMarrow1PBSC19Cord blood0Total20Total allogeneicMarrow2PBSC29Cord blood0Total31AutologousMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 56PBSC—Cord blood—Total56Total combinedMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 87PBSC—Cord blood0Total87Total pediatric transplants
13
Transplants reported by the centers (from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023)
Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total AllogeneicRelated donorMarrow3PBSC1Cord blood0Total4Unrelated donorMarrow4PBSC1Cord blood1Total6Total allogeneicMarrow7PBSC2Cord blood1Total10AutologousMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 3PBSC—Cord blood—Total3Total combinedMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 12PBSC—Cord blood1Total13All 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 0-18419-44445-64565+2Total15Unrelated 0-18619-44745-64965+4Total26Autologous 0-18319-44845-642865+20Total59Total 0-181319-441945-644265+26Total100Treatments 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
No survivorship program information is available. Contact the center for information about post-transplant care.