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Loma Linda University Medical Center

Location

Loma Linda University Medical Center
11234 Anderson Street, 4th Floor
#4828
Loma Linda, CA 92354
Direct phone: (909) 558-7498

Total transplants by cell source

From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022
  • Marrow: 6
  • PBSC: 20
  • Cord Blood: 2
  • Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 17
Performs adult; pediatric transplants

Overview

Loma Linda University Medical Center is a FACT accredited program. The BMT program offers a comprehensive range of transplant services including myeloablative and reduced intensity matched related and unrelated donor transplants, cord blood transplants and haploidentical donor transplants. Our program has state of the art facilities for both inpatient and outpatient care that includes a 33 bed inpatient pediatric unit and a 17 bed inpatient adult unit. This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 2002 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since October 2005.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 2002 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since October 2005.

Attending physicians

Adult - Hisham Abdel-Azim, Mojtaba Akhtari, Khazal Sajad

Pediatric - Albert Kheradpour, Quan Zhao

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC and single cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult and pediatric

Other programs and services

Loma Linda has multiple programs that are available at our center. Places for family's housing includes: Ronald McDonald House, the Doug-Out House and shuttle services from some of the housing to clinic. For inpatient we offer Cafeteria vouchers on case by case, as well as a pantry that is available to the parents only, filled with bottled drinks/water and light meals. We have a chapel and chaplains as well as in-house interpreter services.

About the center

Overview

Loma Linda University Medical Center is a FACT accredited program. The BMT program offers a comprehensive range of transplant services including myeloablative and reduced intensity matched related and unrelated donor transplants, cord blood transplants and haploidentical donor transplants. Our program has state of the art facilities for both inpatient and outpatient care that includes a 33 bed inpatient pediatric unit and a 17 bed inpatient adult unit. This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 2002 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since October 2005.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 2002 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since October 2005.

Attending physicians

Adult - Hisham Abdel-Azim, Mojtaba Akhtari, Khazal Sajad

Pediatric - Albert Kheradpour, Quan Zhao

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC and single cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult and pediatric

Other programs and services

Loma Linda has multiple programs that are available at our center. Places for family's housing includes: Ronald McDonald House, the Doug-Out House and shuttle services from some of the housing to clinic. For inpatient we offer Cafeteria vouchers on case by case, as well as a pantry that is available to the parents only, filled with bottled drinks/water and light meals. We have a chapel and chaplains as well as in-house interpreter services.

Overall center survival


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:

  1. Patients who had their FIRST ALLOGENEIC transplant (cells from a related or unrelated donor/cord blood) during 2019, 2020, 2021, and
  2. Who had their transplant at a U.S. transplant center, and
  3. Who had follow-up information provided by the transplant center for analysis

For this center, we have survival information for 24 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 91.7%.

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 74.3% and 99.6%.

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 at bloodcell.transplant.hrsa.gov.

Number of adult transplants

Total adult transplants


6

Transplants reported (From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 as reported by the centers)

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 0 2 0 2
Unrelated donor 0 0 0 0
Total allogeneic 0 2 0 2
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
4
-- 4
Total combined
6 0 6

Number of pediatric transplants

Total pediatric transplants


39

Transplants reported (From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 as reported by the centers)

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 5 17 0 22
Unrelated donor 1 1 2 4
Total allogeneic 6 18 2 26
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
13
-- 13
Total combined
37 2 39

Transplants by disease

All diseases

Number of transplants by age reported from January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 (includes marrow, PBSC and cord blood)

0-18 19-44 45-64 65+ Total
Related 21 1 1 0 23
Unrelated 4 0 0 0 4
Autologous 13 2 1 1 17
Total 38 3 2 1 44

Treatments 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 for this disease can be found:

Additional information

Transplant center resources

Transplant center coordinator:
Heather Cox
Email: hcox@llu.edu

If you have questions about costs and financial services at this center, please call the transplant center's direct phone number.

NMDP 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

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