Comprehensive Care for Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes
The Bone Marrow Failure Clinic at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center provides highly sophisticated and comprehensive multidisciplinary care for children with bone marrow failure syndromes.
The clinic offers evaluation, diagnosis and treatment for all types of bone marrow failure syndromes. Among the conditions we see are:
- Congenital amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia
- Cyclic neutropenia
- Diamond-Blackfan anemia
- Dyskeratosis congenita
- Glanzmann's thrombasthenia
- Hereditary sideroblastic anemia
- Idiopathic severe aplastic anemia
- Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
- Porphyria (especially Congenital Erythropoietic Porphyria)
- Shwachman-Diamond syndrome
- Seckel syndrome
- Severe congenital neutropenia (Kostmann’s syndrome)
- Thrombocytopenia with absent radii
A Team Approach to Care
Teamwork ensures that patients receive the most effective treatment and follow-up care possible.
Bone marrow failure syndromes affect every patient differently. Depending on the child’s needs, the care team may ask other specialists at Cincinnati Children’s to be involved in their care. For instance, some children have an abnormal bone structure, while others have congenital heart or kidney problems.
These issues might require the expertise of specialists from many areas of medicine, including:
