The Hematology Center after Prof.R.H. Yeolyan, Ministry of Health, Republic of Armenia, is a unique specialized medical institution dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of blood system diseases in Armenia. The center carries out a full-fledged diagnosis and treatment of children and adults with malignant and other blood system diseases using the new technologies, international guidelines, curative programs and practices. The patients in Hematology Center are treated by the newly ways of chemotherapy programs, highly effective medical treatments such as:
- Target therapy with tyrosine kinase inhibitors
- High dose chemotherapy (HDC)
- Cell therapy - bone marrow/stem cells transplantation
The diagnostic and therapeutic services of the Center are provided by the specialists who are regularly trained in the world leading hospitals (“MD Anderson Cancer Center”, “Hamburg Eppendorf”, Prague “Hematology and Blood Transfusion Center”, “Oncology Center after Dmitry Rogachev”).
The following diseases are treated in Hematology Center:
- Acute leukemias
- myeloblastic
- lymphoblastic
- Lymphomas
- Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- B-large cell lymphoma
- Follicular lymphoma
- T-cell lymphoma
- Extranodal lymphoma, etc.
- Multiple myeloma
- Waldenstrom's microglobulinemia
- Chronic leukemias
- chronic lymphocytic leukemia
- chronic myeloid leukemia
- Hairy cell leukemia
- Myeloproliferative Disorders
- Myelodysplastic syndrome
- Ph-negative myeloproliferative disorders:
- Myelofibrosis
- Policytemia vera
- Essential Thrombocytemia
- Anemia
- Iron deficiency anemia
- Vitamin B12-deficiency anemia
- Folic acid deficiency anemia
- Congenital hemolytic anemia (thalassemia, microspherocytosis)
- Acquired hemolytic anemia
- Other types of anemia
- Coagulation disorders
- Hemophilia (congenital and acquired)
- Thrombophilia
- Coagulopathies
- Pathology of platelet count
- Immune thrombocytopenic purpura
- Thrombocytopathies
Laboratories and instrumental diagnostic department of the Hematology center are equipped with modern devices necessary for the diagnosis of diseases of the blood system.
- Clinical laboratory
- laboratory of morphology
- biochemistry
- hemostasis
- serology
- Immune hematology
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Cytogenetics
- Immunophenotyping (flow cytometry)
- Cytogenetics analysis (carotype, FISH method)
- Electrophoresis (urine, blood)
- Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
- Sequencing (Next Generation Sequencing/NGS) for Detection of Genetic Mutations
- Laboratory of pathology
- histological
- histochemical
- immunohistochemistry of trephine biopsy material, lymph nodes, spleen, thymus etc.
- Department of Instrumental Diagnosis
Radiology diagnostic department
- Computed Tomography (CT)
- Digital X-ray examination
- Ultrasound Examination
- Endoscopy
- Esophagocastroduodenoscopy
- Colonoscopy
- Stem Cells Laboratory
The stem cells laboratory carries out the procession, cryo-preservation and preparation of stem cells taken from peripheral blood, bone marrow and cord blood.
- Blood Bank
The Blood Bank is located in Hematology Center, where blood components are derived from the donor’s whole blood, and then provided to both patients receiving treatment at Hematology Center and to other medical institutions in Yerevan and regions. The collection of stem cells from peripheral blood of patients and donors and the procedure of apheresis (leukocytopheresis, plasmapheresis) is done in the Blood Bank.
Departments of Hematology Center are:
- Bone marrow/stem cell transplantation department
- Adult Outpatient and Inpatient clinical hematology departments
- Pediatric Outpatient and Inpatient clinical hematology departments
- Intensive care unit (ICU)
- Surgery department
- Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center
- Clinic of Adults' Oncology and Chemotherapy
- Other specialists:
- Dentist
- Endocrinologist
- Cardiologist
- Neuropathologist
The Center cooperates with
- “St. Jude Children's Research Hospital”, USA
- “The University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf” (UKE), Germany
- “University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center”, USA
- “Dmitry Rogachev National Research center of pediatric hematology, oncology and immunology”, Russia
- “St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute”, Austria
- “Raisa Gorbacheva Memorial Research Institute for Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Transplantation”, Russia
- “Muenster University Hospital”, Germany
- “China Medical University Hospital”, Taiwan
- “Dusseldorf University Hospital”, Germany
- “Heidelberg University Hospital”, Germany
- “Hematology and Blood Transfusion Center”, (UKHT), Czech Republic
- “Department of pediatric hematology and oncology, Motol University hospital”, Czech Republic
- “National Blood Center”, Italy
- “Children's Cancer Center”, Lebanon
- “King Hussein Cancer Center”, Jordan
- “University of California” (UCLA), USA
- “Stanford University MDS Center and Department of Orthopaedic Surgery”, USA
- “The Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School”, USA
- “Department of Hematology, Mayo Clinic”, USA
- “National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Myeloma”, USA
- “National Research Center for Hematology”, Russia
- “M.Iashvili Children's Central Hospital”, Georgia
- “Lund University”, Sweden
- “Belarusian Research Center for Pediatric Oncology and Hematology”, Belarus
- “Georges-Pompidou European Hospital”, France
- “Moffitt Cancer Center”,USA
- “Medical University of Graz”, Austria
- “Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center”,USA
- “Karmanos Cancer Center”, USA
- “NovoNordisk” , Switzerland
- Hilf fur Armenia Foundation,German
- “Max Foundation”, USA
- Cure2Children Foundation, Italy
The Hematology Center is the clinical base of the Departments of Hematology, Oncology and Pediatric oncology and hematology of YSMU.
