"Allogeneic Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation Clinical Results."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the New York Academy of Sciences conference Bone Marrow Transplantation in the 90's: Into the 21st Century, held March 15-18, 1995, "The international cord blood transplant registry has collected clinical data on patients transplanted with either related or unrelated cord blood. As of September 1994, umbilical cord blood from sibling donors has been used to reconstitute hematopoiesis in 44 patients. For recipients of HLA identical and HLA-1 antigen mismatch the probability of engraftment at 50 days was 84%, of grade II-IV acute GVHD it was 3% and of chronic GVHD, 6% with a median follow-up of 1.6 years, the probability of survival was...

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