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Miami Children's Hospital

Bone Marrow Transplant Program
3100 Southwest 62nd Avenue
NE Wing, Suite 125
Miami, FL 33155
Direct phone: (305) 663-6851
Toll-free phone: (800) 432-6837
http://www.mch.com

Program Description:

  The program is using BMT as an innovative therapy to treat a variety of malignant and non-malignant disorders. The transplant program continues to be a part of COG, IBMTR and PBMTC. MCH is the only FACT-accredited transplant program in Florida dedicated exclusively to the care of pediatric patients.

Contact Information:

  If you have transplant-related questions, please contact Vicki Angulo-Vazquez, transplant center coordinator, at (305) 662-8283 or by e-mail at vicki.Angulo-Vazquez@mch.com.

Program Type:

  Pediatric (ages 0 to 21)

Attending Physicians:

(Medical Doctors)
 

Pediatric -

Guillermo De Angulo, Enrique Escalon, John Fort, Ziad Khatib, Athena Pefkarou

Transplants Performed:

  Marrow/PBSC and single 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: Two Two
Location: Class I or DQB1 only A or B antigen only
helpExplain Transplant Center HLA Match Requirements

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$1,800
DR testing of A/B tested donors (per donor)$850
Confirmatory typing blood sample (per sample)$1,900
IDM sample collection/testing (per donor)$950
High resolution - HLA typing$1,300
Marrow or PBSC procurement$36,000
Cord blood procurement (including shipping fees)$37,000
Cord blood typing$1,300

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.

helpExplain Transplant Costs at Different Centers

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 representative listed in the Contact Information section above.

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 1991 and has been an NMDP transplant center since May 2000.

Transplants Performed

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

Marrow

PBSC

Cord
Blood

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Total

(by transplant type)

Total Non-
Myeloblative transplants*

Unrelated Donor - Adult 0 0 0 --- 0 0
Unrelated Donor - Pediatric 17 0 7 --- 24 0
Related Donor - Adult 0 0 0 --- 0 0
Related Donor - Pediatric 34 3 1 --- 38 1
Autologous (PBSC and Marrow) - Adult --- --- --- 0 0 ---
Autologous (PBSC and Marrow) - Pediatric --- --- --- 36 36 ---
Total (by cell source) 51 3 8 36 98 1

This center performed a total of 11 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.

helpExplain Transplant Experience

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 20 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 74%.
  4. The predicted one-year survival was 65% (with a 95% confidence limit that the predicted survival was between 44% and 85%).
  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 2CR 3/4 1/1 -- -- -- -- -- 4/5
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia 3+CR -- 1/1 -- -- -- -- -- 1/1
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia 2CP -- -- 0/1 -- -- -- -- 0/1
Familial Erythrophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis 3/4 -- -- -- -- -- -- 3/4
I-Cell Disease/Mucolipidosis 2/2 -- -- -- -- -- -- 2/2
MDS-Refractory Anemia-Excess Blasts 1/1 -- -- -- -- -- -- 1/1
Neuroblastoma 0/1 -- -- -- -- -- -- 0/1
Other Histiocytic Disorder 1/1 -- -- -- -- -- -- 1/1
Other Non-Malignant Disease 1/1 -- -- -- -- -- -- 1/1
SCID - Absence of T & B Cells 1/1 -- -- -- -- -- -- 1/1
Severe Aplastic Anemia 1/2 -- -- -- -- -- -- 1/2
Total 13/17 2/2 0/1 -- -- -- -- 15/20

helpExplain Survival by Patient Diagnosis and Age


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.