Children's Wisconsin
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Transplant Summary
Overview
Our goal is to provide comprehensive and compassionate cutting-edge care to anyone needing a transplant. Since 1980, we have performed over 1400 transplants. These include over 750 alternative donor transplants that utilize unrelated donors as well as mismatched/haploidentical family members.This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1980 and has been an NMDP transplant center since February 1991.
Attending physicians
Adult - Larisa Broglie, David Margolis, Amy Moskop, Rachel Phelan, Sridhar Rao, Julie Talano
Pediatric - Larisa Broglie, David Margolis, Amy Moskop, Rachel Phelan, Sridhar Rao, Julie TalanoTransplants performed
Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cordCord blood transplants
Pediatric onlyOther programs and services
School program, Ronald McDonald House, discounted hotel rates, Expressive therapy-Art and Music-in addition to Child Life, Recreational Therapy, Animal Assisted therapy, sibling care program, Family Resource Center.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 61 patients.The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 91.8%.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 76.9% and 94%.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
57
Transplants reported by the centers (from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023)
Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total AllogeneicRelated donorMarrow11PBSC13Cord blood0Total24Unrelated donorMarrow6PBSC3Cord blood6Total15Total allogeneicMarrow17PBSC16Cord blood6Total39AutologousMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 18PBSC—Cord blood—Total18Total combinedMarrowBoth marrow & PBSC 51PBSC—Cord blood6Total57All 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 0-181919-44545-64065+0Total24Unrelated 0-181219-44345-64065+0Total15Autologous 0-181719-44145-64065+0Total18Total 0-184819-44945-64065+0Total57Treatments 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 coordinatorJennifer KoscielakPhone: (414) 266-7491Email: jkoscielak@childrenswi.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
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
9000 W. Wisconsin Ave. Milwaukee, WI 53226 Phone:414-266-2774 For more information about this program: https://chw.org/medical-care/macc-fund-center/programs-and-services/blood-and-marrow-transplant-program (Opens in a new tab)Staff
Program Director:Rachel Phelan, MDProgram Coordinator:Julie Nichols, RN, BSNMedical Specialties in Program
Cardiology, endocrinology, hematology, oncology, palliative care, psychiatry/psychology.Medical Services Offered
Chronic GVHD management, fertility counseling, reproductive health, financial counseling, nutrition/dietetics, pain management, physical therapy and rehabilitation, sexual health, social services, vaccinations.Telemedicine services are available.Patient Eligibility
Children- Allogeneic and Autologous 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 25
- Will accept adult patients who were transplanted as a child at another center up to age 25