Patient Care

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Hematology at MHH-TMC, UTHealth/UT Physician clinics, LBJ, and Centers of Excellence

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The Division of Hematology at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) provides comprehensive, patient-centered hematology care for patients diagnosed with various blood disorders. The team covers both Classical and Malignant Hematology at Lyndon B Johnson (LBJ) Hospital in the Harris Health System.

Mission

The Hematology team’s mission is to:

• Provide high-quality, personalized medical care for patients diagnosed with, suspected of having, or at high risk for adult patients with blood disorders as part of a well-coordinated, multidisciplinary plan to improve and sustain quality of life
• Educate current and future health care providers and general practitioners on various aspects of blood disorders
• Contribute to advances in biomedical research in the areas of prevention, screening, and treatment of blood disorders
• Promote good health in our community through collaborations with physicians, local leaders, and patient advocacy groups

Services Offered

Our team of highly skilled physicians and allied healthcare professionals provides consultation and management in both the outpatient and inpatient settings at Memorial Hermann TMC, UTHealth, and LBJ Hospital/Outpatient Center.

We provide comprehensive care through collaboration with primary care and other specialists, which includes multidisciplinary meetings and tumor board conferences and coordination of care for the treatment of disorders such as sickle cell disease, platelet abnormalities, thrombosis, bleeding and clotting disorders, and others. Enrollment in clinical trials is reviewed with interested patients.

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UT Physician Comprehensive Adult Sickle Cell Center:

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At UT Physicians Comprehensive Adult Sickle Cell Center, we provide individuals with sickle cell disease and other hemoglobinopathies access to a multidisciplinary and coordinated team of knowledgeable providers at one location. Internists, genetic counselors, and multiple specialists (pain, pulmonary, cardiology, renal, infectious disease, OB/GYN) are available for consultation on site. At our Center, we have a dedicated team of health care personnel including sickle cell medical specialists (MD and APP), nursing staff, social worker, community health workers and other team members necessary to manage such complex chronic genetic condition which causes multiorgan dysfunction and failure. We have infusion suites for management of uncomplicated vaso-occlusive episodes. We also offer simple transfusion and apheresis (red blood exchange transfusion) program.

UTP Comprehensive Adult Sickle Cell Center is a member of the National Alliance of Sickle Cell Centers. Furthermore, UTHealth is a member and Council Site of American Society of Hematology sickle cell disease Clinical Trial Network (ASH CTN) which is a designation and award given to only a few adult comprehensive SCD centers nationwide. We offer multiple clinical trials, phase 1, 2, and 3, to our patients especially on novel disease modifying therapies; we also conduct other SCD basic science and clinical research studies.
 

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UT Physicians Gulf States Hemophilia and Thrombophilia Center

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Comprehensive clinic for adult and pediatric patients with bleeding and clotting disorders, such as factor deficiencies, Von Willebrand disease, platelet abnormalities, venous thromboembolism, and thrombosis related to primary hypercoagulable states or secondary conditions such as autoimmune disorders.
 

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LBJ Hospital

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Comprehensive care for patients in both inpatient and ambulatory settings with malignant and non-malignant blood disorders.