Welcome to the University of Iowa Children's Hospital Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation (PBMT) web site. We hope that these pages will provide you
with an overview of our program specifically of BMT in general.
Please select
if you would like to learn more about bone marrow transplantation in general.
This is a very good place to start if you are not already familiar with
this field.
The Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program at the University of Iowa Children's Hospital opened in May 1986. Dr. Frederick Goldman
has been a member of this program since 1992 and the acting director of
the program since 1997. Dr. M. Sue O'Dorisio is our brain tumor expert. Doctors Thomas Loew, Raymond Tannous, and Jorge Di Paola are the other physicians who work with this
program.
Please select to see more about the many people
who work with and support our program.
Patients with the following diseases may be eligible for transplantation
within the PBMT program. Select each disease to find out more about that
particular disease.
Thank you to all the authors of the above sites for providing such valuable
information to our patients and their families.
Please select this to see more about the how we
treat the above diseases in our program. We are continually striving to
develop new protocols.
At this time we perform approximately 20 marrow transplants per year
and have performed a total of over 375 transplants. We performed
autologous and allogeneic marrow and peripheral blood stem cell transplants
and have experience using not only matched related donors but also matched
and partially matched unrelated and mismatched related donors. In
fact, we have transplanted over 150 patients with mismatched donors, representing
one of the largest centers world wide specializing in this type of transplant.
This program is an accredited transplant center associated with the national
Marrow Donor Program. As such, we are able to search their registry
of over 3 million volunteer unrelated marrow donors. The National
marrow Donor Program has recently added an umbilical cord database to
their search system so in addition to marrow donors we have access to
the cryopreserved cord blood units in over 15 cord blood banks.
Since 1997 this program has been a member of the Pediatric Blood and
Marrow Transplant Consortium. We are participating in several new
trials through this group. We currently have approved clinical research
trials available to treat ALL, brain tumors, and recurrent or high-risk
solid tumors. We also have a trial open with used unrelated umbilical
cord blood as the source of stem cells for treatment of a wide variety
of diseases and conditions.
Please select to see more about the types of donors
used and transplants performed by our program.
Please select to see more about the specifics of
how our program functions on a day to day basis.
If you are interested in receiving additional information about our program
you may contact us in one of several manners.
- You may find out what information our physicians require to provide
a consultation and how this can easily be arranged.
You may call or our transplant coordinator directly at (319) 356-4324
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