Texas Children's Hospital
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Transplant Summary
Overview
Our mission: Develop therapy for diseases affecting children and adults. Discoveries in gene-vector design, stem cell biology and immunotherapy allow implementation of agents to improve conditioning therapy, cytotoxic T cell therapy to reduce infection and cell-based therapy to prevent relapse.This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1979 and has been an NMDP transplant center since June 1997.
Attending physicians
Adult - George Carrum, Helen Heslop, LaQuisa Hill, Rammurti Kamble, Premal Lulla, Carlos Ramos
Pediatric - Nabil Ahmed, Saleh Bhar, John Craddock, Erin Doherty, Josaura Fernandez Sanchez, Anil George, Meenakshi Hegde, Robert Krance, Gabriela Llaurador Caraballo, Caridad Martinez, Erin Morales Ubico, Bilal Omer, Baheyeldin Salem, David Steffin, Khaled YassineTransplants performed
Marrow/PBSC and single cordCord blood transplants
Pediatric onlyOther programs and services
Services provided at Texas Children's Hospital (pediatrics):
All patients meet with a BMT social worker pre-transplant who prepares a detailed psychosocial assessment which is used to determine the needs of individual patients. Our Social Worker offers a variety of services to patients and their families such as family counseling and referrals, pre-admission and discharge information, planning and assistance obtaining resources such as housing, food, transportation and financial services.
Our Child Life specialists focuses on the emotional and developmental needs of children throughout the transplant process. Through play therapy, our child life specialist strives to reduce the stress of the patient and enables them to cope with the experience in a positive manner. Specific services available include age appropriate education, preparation and support for medical procedures, therapeutic play and sibling teaching. The child life specialist is also involved in assisting school re-entry to allow a positive and consistent transition into school.
Texas Children's Hospital has a chaplain service that is available for support and to assist families with any spiritual or religious concerns you may have.
Teachers from the Houston Independent School District (HISD) are available during the school year for hospitalized patients. Their primary purpose is to help students maintain academic skills during hospitalization. The teachers will modify the amount of material presented according to how the student is feeling each day. If your child is in a different school district, he/she will be enrolled in HISD while in Houston and then be re-enrolled back into their home school once the patient returns home. The teachers will have ongoing contact with the home school and will teach the same curriculum with the same textbooks as the home school if possible.Patient survival information for this center
This center's actual 1-year survival results are below 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 324 patients.The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 72.5%.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 73.1% and 81.5%.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
396
Transplants reported by the centers (from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023)
Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total AllogeneicRelated donorMarrow12PBSC28Cord blood0Total40Unrelated donorMarrow11PBSC79Cord blood0Total90Total allogeneicMarrow23PBSC107Cord blood0Total130AutologousMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 266PBSC—Cord blood—Total266Total combinedMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 396PBSC—Cord blood0Total396Total pediatric transplants
208
Transplants reported by the centers (from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023)
Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total AllogeneicRelated donorMarrow65PBSC7Cord blood3Total75Unrelated donorMarrow49PBSC8Cord blood18Total75Total allogeneicMarrow114PBSC15Cord blood21Total150AutologousMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 58PBSC—Cord blood—Total58Total combinedMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 187PBSC—Cord blood21Total208All 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 0-187919-441845-641565+3Total115Unrelated 0-187919-443045-643065+27Total166Autologous 0-186119-444045-6412065+103Total324Total 0-1821919-448845-6416565+133Total605Treatments 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
Transplant center coordinatorBernadette BurttschellPhone: 832-825-9279Email: baburtts@texaschildrens.orgNMDP 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
Texas Children's Hospital LTS
1102 Bates Street Houston, TX 77030 Phone:832-826-0870 Overview
Long term survivors (2 years post allogeneic transplant) are seen annually by a medical team focused on the long term health of the individual. The goal of the medical team is to promote healthy habits, prevent or ameliorate complications, and foster all aspects of health and well being for transplant patients. The Program has access to all subspecialists that may be needed to address health concerns. The team includes physicians, advanced practice nurses and physician assistants, nurses, and social workers.
Staff
Program Director:Robert Krance, MDProgram Coordinator:Ashton Marchand, RNMedical Specialties in Program
Allergy/immunology, cardiology, dentistry, dermatology, Education specialists, Genetics, Physical Medicine, 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, Educaional and vocational counseling, fertility counseling, reproductive health, financial counseling, 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 transplant recipients
- 2 years 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 18