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University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

4301 West Markham
# 816
Little Rock, AR 72205
Direct phone: (501) 526-6990 ext 2571
Toll-free phone: (877) 686-8230
http://www.uams.edu/medcenter

Program Description:

  The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences BMT program utilizes a multidisciplinary team approach to provide specialized care to our patients requiring autologous, allogeneic and umbilical cord blood transplants.

Contact Information:

  If you have transplant-related questions, please contact Diana Beavers, transplant center coordinator, at (501) 526-6990 (ext. 2571) or by e-mail at beaversdianak@uams.edu.

Program Type:

  Adult (ages 18 to 50)

Attending Physicians:

(Medical Doctors)
 

Adult -

Elias Anaissie, Bart Barlogie, Frits Van Rhee

Transplants Performed:

  Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on:

  Adult 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: Any locus 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:$900 - 2,340
DR testing of A/B tested donors (per donor):$400 - 1,065
Confirmatory typing blood sample (per sample):$415 - 2,555
IDM sample collection/testing (per donor):$260 - 1,070
High resolution - HLA typing:$260 - 1,600
Marrow or PBSC procurement:$17,365 - 47,820
Cord blood procurement (including shipping fees):$14,490 - 49,496

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 1993 and has been an NMDP transplant center since February 1993.

Center-Specific Analysis

This analysis is based on transplants performed from Jan. 1, 2002 through Dec 31, 2006, 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 13 patients.
  2. The overall disease condition of patients treated at this center was in the high category (5 on a scale of 1 to 5).
  3. The actual one-year survival of these patients was 7.7%.
  4. The predicted one-year survival was 47.9% (with 95% statistical confidence that the predicted survival was between 22.0% and 72.8%).
  5. This center's actual results are below the predicted range for this center. National one-year estimated actual survival was 54.0% in the 8,847 patients transplanted in the United States.

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

Transplants Performed

(From Jan. 2002 - Dec. 2006)

Marrow

PBSC

Cord
Blood

Auto-
logous

Total

(by transplant type)

Total Non-
Myeloblative transplants*

Unrelated Donor - Adult 0 18 2 --- 20 0
Unrelated Donor - Pediatric 0 0 0 --- 0 0
Related Donor - Adult 2 29 0 --- 31 52
Related Donor - Pediatric 0 0 0 --- 0 0
Autologous (PBSC and Marrow) - Adult --- --- --- 3370 3370 ---
Autologous (PBSC and Marrow) - Pediatric --- --- --- 0 0 ---
Total (by cell source) 2 47 2 3370 3421 52

This center performed a total of 770 transplants, all types, in the most recent year (from June 2007 to May 2008)

*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

Survival by Patient's Age, Disease Type and Stage


This data is only based on unrelated transplants performed from Jan. 2002 to Dec. 2006. It also includes one year post-transplant follow-up, through Dec. 2007. 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 the 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 Bilineage Leukemia -- -- -- -- -- 1/1 -- 1/1
Acute Myelogenous Leukemia 2CR -- -- 0/1 -- 0/1 -- -- 0/2
Acute Myelogenous Leukemia 3+CR/RLPS -- -- -- 0/2 -- -- -- 0/2
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia AP -- -- -- -- 0/1 -- -- 0/1
MDS-Other Myelodysplastic Disorder -- -- -- 0/1 -- -- -- 0/1
MDS-Refractory Anemia with Ringed Sideroblasts (RARS) -- -- -- -- -- 0/1 -- 0/1
Multiple Myeloma -- -- -- 0/1 -- 0/3 -- 0/4
Severe Aplastic Anemia -- -- 0/1 -- -- -- -- 0/1
Total -- -- 0/2 0/4 0/2 1/5 -- 1/13

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/centers.

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