A private hospital in Providencia, Santiago, running adult and paediatric bone marrow transplant programmes with dedicated isolation rooms.
Clinica Santa Maria is a private hospital in Providencia, Santiago. According to its website it runs a bone marrow transplant speciality covering both adults and children, as part of a wider oncology and haematology service.
The site describes three kinds of transplant. An autologous transplant uses the patient's own blood-forming stem cells. An allogeneic transplant uses cells from a donor who is immunologically compatible. A haploidentical transplant, the site says, needs only a half match between donor and recipient, which widens the pool of possible donors.
The site sets out the process in five stages: collecting the stem cells, giving high-dose chemotherapy or radiotherapy to clear the marrow, infusing the cells, waiting for the graft to take, and then medium to long-term recovery. It names bone marrow disorders, leukaemia, myeloma, aplastic anaemia, immunodeficiencies and cancers needing high-dose chemotherapy as the reasons for transplant.
The clinic states that it has twenty-three isolation rooms with positive pressure and high-efficiency particulate air filtration, which it says are used to reduce the risk of serious infection while the immune system recovers. No individual clinicians are named on the pages read, and no prices are given.
The site names the following as reasons a bone marrow transplant may be recommended.
The site describes bone marrow transplantation, in which blood-forming stem cells are collected and then infused after conditioning treatment, as the core of this speciality.
The pages read do not name individual clinicians; enquiries are directed to the oncology department.
According to the site, the clinic is at Av. Bellavista 0415 in Providencia, Santiago, with the oncology service on the second floor, and it operates other sites in the city. For transplantation it states that it has twenty-three isolation rooms fitted with positive pressure ventilation and high-efficiency particulate air filters, intended to protect patients from infection while their immune system recovers.
The site gives no prices and says nothing about the cost of transplantation.
Profile compiled from information published on the clinic's own website and from the StemCell Registry directory record. Details may change; confirm directly with the clinic before making decisions.