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Primary Location:


University of Alabama at Birmingham

Bone Marrow Transplant & Cell Therapy Program
619 South 19th Street
P302 West Pavilion
Birmingham, AL 35249-6979
Direct phone: (205) 996-2268
http://www.bonemarrow.uab.edu
 

Secondary Location:


The Children's Hospital of Alabama

Lowder Stem Cell Transplant Unit
1600 7th Avenue South
Birmingham, AL 35233
Direct phone: (205) 939-6721
http://sc.chsys.org

Program Description:

  The "single-staff model" UAB BMT Program provides all inpatient and outpatient care on a 24 hour, 7 day schedule in specially designed units at University and Children's Hospitals for adults and children receiving the entire range of blood and marrow transplants.

Contact Information:

  If you have transplant-related questions, please contact Diana Tate, transplant center coordinator, at (205) 934-1911 or by e-mail at dftate@uabmc.edu.

Program Type:

  Adult (ages 14 to 75) and Pediatric (ages 1 to 19)

Attending Physicians:

(Medical Doctors)
 

Adult -

Raquel Innis-Shelton, Richard Lopez, Donna Salzman, William Vaughan

Pediatric -

Joseph Chewning, Frederick Goldman, Sandhya Kharbanda

Transplants Performed:

  Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on:

  Pediatric only

Mismatches allowed:

For marrow, PBSC, or cord blood transplant with an unrelated donor. Match criteria may vary based on patient's age, disease type and stage.
 
Marrow/PBSC Cord Blood
Number: One Two
Location: Class I or DQB1 only A or B antigen and DRB1 allele or antigen
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Estimated Search & Transplant Costs

Costs vary greatly from center to center, and depend on factors such as health insurance, disease type, and disease stage of the patient, as well as center-specific billing policies.
Activation of formal search$1,900 - 2,397
DR testing of A/B tested donors (per donor)$1,168
Confirmatory typing blood sample (per sample)$2,150 - 5,103
IDM sample collection/testing (per donor)$980 - 1,159
High resolution - HLA typing$612 - 5,103
Marrow or PBSC procurement$47,498
Cord blood procurement (including shipping fees)$49,314
Cord blood typingN/A

The costs listed above are only a small part of the total cost of a transplant. Contact your transplant center to learn more about costs of actual transplant and follow-up treatment.

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Financial Services:

Financial services at this center could include:

  • Health insurance information
  • Financial assistance
  • Patient-related resources

Resources for financial information

If you have questions about costs and financial services at this transplant center, you can contact the center's financial representative, Syzmanski Fields at (205) 975-5713 or by e-mail at sfields@uabmc.edu.

Many organizations exist to help patients with lodging, transportation and other transplant-related expenses. Visit the National Marrow Donor Program's Patient Organizations database for more information. Financial assistance resources are also listed on this Web site.

Transplant Experience

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1992 and has been an NMDP transplant center since November 1995.

Transplants Performed

(Using NMDP and non-NMDP donors from Jan. 2003 to Dec. 2007 as reported by the centers)

Marrow

PBSC

Cord
Blood

Auto-
logous

Total

(by transplant type)

Total Non-
Myeloblative transplants*

Unrelated Donor - Adult 38 9 0 --- 47 0
Unrelated Donor - Pediatric 26 1 16 --- 43 0
Related Donor - Adult 0 73 0 --- 73 3
Related Donor - Pediatric 26 2 0 --- 28 0
Autologous (PBSC and Marrow) - Adult --- --- --- 280 280 ---
Autologous (PBSC and Marrow) - Pediatric --- --- --- 34 34 ---
Total (by cell source) 90 85 16 314 505 3

This center performed a total of 100 transplants, all types, in the most recent year (from June 2008 to May 2009)

*The total Non-Myeloblative transplants column shows a subset of the total number of transplants by type.

To locate centers that perform cord blood transplants, use the search tool on this site.

The NMDP also has Transplants by Disease Charts available showing the number of NMDP coordinated transplants by disease category at each U.S. transplant center.

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Center-Specific Analysis (Using unrelated NMDP donors)

This analysis is based on transplants performed from Jan. 1, 2003 through Dec. 31, 2007, using unrelated NMDP donors. It only includes patients who were confirmed to be either alive or deceased within one year of transplant.
  1. This center reported survival status data for 69 patients.
  2. The overall disease condition of patients treated at this center was in the low risk category (1 on a scale of 1 to 5).
  3. The observed one-year survival of these patients was 62%.
  4. The predicted one-year survival was 66% (with a 95% confidence limit that the predicted survival was between 56% and 78%).
  5. This center's observed results are similar to the predicted range for this center. The estimated national one-year survival was 56.3% in the 9,673 patients transplanted in the United States.

For help with understanding these statistics, please see How to Understand NMDP Transplant Center Statistics.

Survival by Patient's Age, Disease Type and Stage (Using unrelated NMDP donors)


This data is only based on unrelated transplants performed from Jan. 2003 to Dec. 2007. It also includes one year post-transplant follow-up, through Dec. 2008. The first number represents the number of patients alive at one year post transplant. The second number is a total number of transplanted patients in that particular group.

Key:
CP = chronic phase (1st or 2nd) BP = blastic phase
AP = accelerated phase CR = complete remission (1st, 2nd, 3rd or more)
RLPS = relapse PIF = primary induction failure

Diagnoses

0-10
Yrs

11-17
Yrs

18-30
Yrs

31-40
Yrs

41-50
Yrs

51-60
Yrs

> 60
Yrs

Overall

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia -- -- 0/1 -- -- -- -- 0/1
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia 1CR 1/1 2/2 -- -- 0/1 0/1 -- 3/5
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia 2CR 3/3 1/2 1/2 -- -- -- -- 5/7
Acute Myelogenous Leukemia 1CR 0/1 -- 0/1 2/3 1/1 -- -- 3/6
Acute Myelogenous Leukemia 2CR 2/3 -- -- -- 0/2 1/1 -- 3/6
Acute Myelogenous Leukemia 3+CR/RLPS -- 1/1 -- -- -- -- -- 1/1
Acute Myelogenous Leukemia PIF 0/1 -- -- -- -- -- -- 0/1
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia -- -- -- -- 1/2 -- -- 1/2
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia 1CP -- 2/2 1/1 0/1 -- -- -- 3/4
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia 2CP -- -- 0/1 0/1 1/1 -- -- 1/3
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia AP -- -- -- -- -- 0/1 -- 0/1
Combined Immunodeficiency 1/1 -- -- -- -- -- -- 1/1
Familial Erythrophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis 0/1 -- -- -- -- -- -- 0/1
Fanconi Anemia 1/1 -- -- -- -- -- -- 1/1
MDS-Other Myelodysplastic Disorder -- -- -- 0/1 0/1 -- 1/1 1/3
MDS-Refractory Anemia-Excess Blasts -- -- 1/1 -- -- 1/1 -- 2/2
MDS-Unknown Myelodysplastic Disorder -- -- -- 1/2 -- 1/1 -- 2/3
Multiple Myeloma -- -- -- 0/1 -- -- -- 0/1
Myelofibro Myeloid Metaplasia -- -- -- 0/1 1/1 -- -- 1/2
Neutrophil Defect (Chediak-Higashi Syndrome) 1/1 -- -- -- -- -- -- 1/1
Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma -- -- -- 0/1 0/1 1/1 -- 1/3
Other Acute Leukemia 1/1 -- -- -- 1/1 -- -- 2/2
Other Immune System Disorder 1/1 -- -- -- -- -- -- 1/1
Other Non-Malignant Disease -- 1/1 -- -- -- -- -- 1/1
SCID - Absence of T, Normal B 3/3 -- -- -- -- -- -- 3/3
SCID - Other 2/2 -- -- -- -- -- -- 2/2
Severe Aplastic Anemia 1/1 -- 1/1 2/2 -- -- -- 4/4
Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome 1/1 -- -- -- -- -- -- 1/1
Total 18/22 7/8 4/8 5/13 5/11 4/6 1/1 44/69

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Additional Information
Further information about this center, including the number and type of transplants performed in each of the last three years, and the support groups offered, may be found in the BMT InfoNet Transplant Center Directory: http://www.bmtinfonet.org/transplantcenters.

BMT InfoNet (Blood & Marrow Transplant Information Network) is a nonprofit organization that provides information and emotional support to transplant patients and their families.