Risk Factors and Options to Improve Engraftment in Unrelated Cord Blood Transplantation

Use of umbilical unrelated cord-blood (UCB) cells as an alternative source of hematopoietic cell transplantation has been widely used mainly for patients lacking an HLA-matched donor. UCB present many advantages over bone marrow or mobilized peripheral blood from volunteer donors, such as rapid avai...

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Main Authors: Anna D. Petropoulou, Vanderson Rocha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2011-01-01
Series:Stem Cells International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/610514