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Blood and Marrow Transplant Options

Transplant options for every child

 

When we meet a child in need of a transplant, we search all available donor options. Doing so means we can quickly find the best solution for each child. As a transplant center for the National Marrow Donor Program, Children’s Mercy has access to donor registries throughout the world.

There are two types of transplants:

  • Allogeneic transplant is when cells are obtained from someone else. 

  • Autologous transplant is when the patient’s own cells are used.

Types of donors include:

  • Matched siblings

  • Partially matched related donors (including parents and siblings), also called a haploidentical transplant

  • Unrelated donors from a volunteer registry

  • Umbilical cord blood units

We can obtain healthy cells from the donor in different ways. These include:

  • Bone marrow – typically taken from the back of the hip bones from the donor

  • Peripheral blood – taken from the blood of the donor by using a machine to filter out the stem cells

  • Cord blood transplants – using stem cells from donated umbilical cords 

Transplants completed in 2024

 

Blood and marrow transplant summary table showing 48 total transplants across multiple diseases, with medulloblastoma accounting for the largest number of transplants.
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