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Isolation of Precursor B-cell Subsets from Umbilical Cord Blood
Published on: April 16, 2013
Umbilical cord blood transplantation
Vanderson Rocha1, Guillermo Sanz, Eliane Gluckman
1Eurocord Office, Bone Marrow Transplant, Hematology Department, Hôpital Saint Louis, Paris, France. vanderson.rocha@sls.ap-hop-paris.fr
Purpose Of Review:
Familiar and unrelated umbilical cord blood is an appealing alternative source of hematopoietic stem cells patients undergoing transplantation for a wide variety of diseases. In the unrelated donor transplant setting, shorter time to transplant, which is particularly relevant to patients requiring urgent transplantation, and tolerance of 1-2 human leukocyte antigen mismatch, which increases the chance of finding a suitable donor, are evident advantages over bone marrow transplantation. The speed of engraftment is slower after cord blood transplantation but it is counterbalanced by a lower incidence of severe graft-versus-host disease. Cell dose and human leukocyte antigen are major factors influencing outcome after umbilical cord blood transplantation.
Recent Findings:
Unrelated donor cord blood transplantation is considered an acceptable option to bone marrow for pediatric transplantation, and recent data in adults point the same way.
Summary:
This review describes the recent clinical results of cord blood transplantation and discusses developing research strategies aimed at optimizing this kind of transplantation.
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