The person collecting the cord blood may be an obstetrician, a nurse, or a midwife –anyone who is experienced at doing a sterile blood draw. The training required to collect blood from the umbilical cord is the same skill used by the technicians (phlebotomists) who draw your blood for tes...
Here's how it works: After the umbilical cord is cut, the obstetrician will harvest the stem cells in a non-surgical procedure by inserting a needle into the center of the umbilical cord to collect a small sample of blood. This procedure is painless for both the birthing parent and newbor...
there are three different categories of transplantation, autologous, allogeneic and syngeneic, which can be applied to most disease scenarios. Haematopoietic stem cells can be derived from the bone marrow, peripheral blood and umbilical cord blood. HSCT ...
Haematopoietic stem cells can be derived from the bone marrow, peripheral blood and umbilical cord blood. HSCT treatment can be divided into separate phases that start with the harvest of the stem cells and passing through the condi- tioning, aplasia and engraftment until the recovery of the ...
This study shows that, with a few exceptions, it is not necessary to collect autologous blood from healthy BM donors before the marrow harvest. The post-donation Hb concentrations do not decrease to levels detrimental to healthy persons whether autologous blood is transfused or not. 展开 关键词...
For these reasons, we have gathered experts with experience in management of patients using the different treatment modalities to collect and review the available retrospective data and to construct a consensus management strategy that may be of use to physicians managing this difficult patient ...