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Blood and Marrow Transplant

Transplant Services

About Transplants:

Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) and peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT) are procedures that restore stem cells that have been destroyed by high doses of chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy. There are three types of transplants:

• In autologous transplants, patients receive their own stem cells.
  
  
• In syngeneic transplants, patients receive stem cells from their identical twin.
  
  
• In allogeneic transplants, patients receive stem cells from someone other than the patient or an identical twin. The patient’s brother, sister, or parent may serve as the donor, or a person not related to the patient (an unrelated donor) may be used.

Patients at UMGCC receive the most advanced treatments available and are seen and evaluated by a skilled transplant team, including medical oncologists/hematologists, pathologists, nurses, nutritionists, social workers, and genetic counselors, among others.

Our Services:

Our team of specialists offers a comprehensive array of services designed to provide patients with the most effective care possible. Services include:

• Consultations on complicated cases
• Self-contained state-of-the-art unit dedicated to allogeneic and autologous stem cell transplantation
• Hepa-filtered inpatient transplantation unit designed to provide optimum protection from infection in an environment that is comfortable for patients and family members
• Allogeneic/syngeneic/autologous stem cell transplantation services
• On-site stem cell collection facility
• Developmental translational programs in adoptive immunotherapy, stem cell manipulation, and graft engineering
• New therapies
• Sophisticated HLA (tissue typing) laboratory

Patients have complete access to the full range of medical support services at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

This page was last updated on: March 5, 2008.

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