Bone Marrow Transplant – Louisville, Kentucky(KY), Stem …

The Addison Jo Blair Cancer Care Center is home to Kentucky's only stem cell and bone marrow transplant program specifically for children. An eight-bed unit with HEPA-filtered rooms is designed for the care of patients with compromised immune systems. A multidisciplinary team of attending physicians, residents, nurse practitioners, nurses and ancillary staff provide daily patient care. In addition to the primary transplant clinical team, a child life therapist, social worker, chaplain, physical therapist, nutritionist, pharmacist, expressive and art therapists, and a schoolteacher are involved in each child's care.

We perform stem cell transplants for patients with various blood disorders such as sickle cell anemia and we have a large sickle cell treatment program. We provide transplants using stem cells from related and unrelated cord blood donors and autologous stem cell transplants. All national and international cord blood banks and the National Marrow Donor Program are extensively searched to find matches for our patients.

Kosair Children's Hospital has an on-site private facility for cord blood storage. A service of Norton Healthcare, the Family Link Cord Blood Storage Program began in 1998 for storage of umbilical cord blood from newborn infants. Through Family Link, families delivering within a four-hour driving distance from Louisville Metro can have their baby's stem cells taken from the umbilical cord and placenta at birth and preserved at ultra-low temperatures through a process called cryopreservation. Visit the Family Link Program for more information.

The Kosair Children's Hospital stem cell and bone marrow transplant program is a member of the Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Consortium, the Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network and the Children's Oncology Group.

In 1999, Kosair Children's Hospital became the first hospital in the country to perform a bone marrow transplant for Kostmann syndrome with nonmatching bone marrow.

Parents are encouraged to stay at the Ronald McDonald Family Room provided for families of transplant patients in the Addison Jo Blair Cancer Care Center, where they can remain important team members in their child's care. This room includes a full bathroom, kitchenette, sitting area and four bunk beds. In addition, one parent may sleep in their child's room. Outpatient follow-up is done at Kosair Children's Hospital, where children can get their medicines and transfusions as needed. Out-of-town patients and families can stay at the Ronald McDonald House just two blocks away from the hospital. A room especially for families of our patients is reserved there but based on availability.

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