Umbilical Cord Blood (UCB) Banking: Which One to Choose?
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Family-directed umbilical cord blood banking.
Umbilical cord blood transplantation from HLA-identical siblings provides good results in children. These results support targeted efforts to bank family cord blood units that can be used for a sibling diagnosed with a disease which can be cured by allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation or for research that investigates the use of allogeneic or autologous cord blood cells. Over 500 ...
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Umbilical cord blood is a valuable source of haematopoietic stem cells. There is little information about whether religious affiliations have any bearing on attitudes to and decisions about its collection, donation and storage. The authors provided information about umbilical cord blood banking to expert commentators from six major world religions (Catholicism, Anglicanism, Islam, Judaism, Hind...
متن کاملPatients' knowledge of umbilical cord blood banking.
OBJECTIVE To determine patients' knowledge of umbilical cord blood banking (UCBB). METHODS A questionnaire was administered. Part 1 queried issues of familiarity with the term UCBB. Those patients with any awareness of UCBB were provided with part 2, asking more detailed questions that assessed knowledge. RESULTS Four hundred twenty-five patients completed the survey; 37% had no knowledge o...
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Umbilical cord blood (UBC) can be viewed as the most promising source of stem cells, in which collection cost is minimal and its benefits are immense. The cord blood is used to treat malignant and nonmalignant diseases; this is due to its progenitor characteristics know as stem cells.Its properties of being, immunologically immature and high plasticity has made it superior to other sources of s...
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the cost-effectiveness of private umbilical cord blood banking. METHODS A decision-analytic model was designed comparing private umbilical cord blood banking with no umbilical cord blood banking. Baseline assumptions included a cost of $3,620 for umbilical cord blood banking and storage for 20 years, a 0.04% chance of requiring an autologous stem cell transplant, a 0....
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Stem Cell Research & Therapeutics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2475-5540
DOI: 10.15406/jsrt.2016.01.00039