Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation in Children and Adults

Jaime Sanz; Paul Veys; Vanderson Rocha

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02278-5_64

Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation in Children and Adults

Review

In: The EBMT Handbook: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies [Internet]. 7th edition. Cham (CH): Springer; 2019. Chapter 64.

Authors

Jaime Sanz¹, Paul Veys², Vanderson Rocha^{3

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Book Editors

Enric Carreras¹, Carlo Dufour², Mohamad Mohty³, Nicolaus Kröger⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University Hospital La Fe, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
² Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) for Children NHS Foundation Trust, and University College London GOSH Institute of Child Health, London, UK
³ Hospital de Clinicas, Hematology, Transfusion and Cell Therapy Service, University of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
⁴ Churchill Hospital, NHS-BT, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

Book Affiliations

¹ Spanish Bone Marrow Donor Registry, Josep Carreras Foundation and Leukemia Research Institute, Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
² Hematology Unit, IRCCS Giannina Gaslini, Geneva, Switzerland
³ Department of Hematology, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France
⁴ Department of Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppend, Hamburg, Germany

Excerpt

Umbilical cord blood transplantation (UCBT) from unrelated donors is a suitable option of HSCT for patients in whom it is indicated, and a suitable related or unrelated BM or PB donor is not available in due time.

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