Cord Blood Transplantation

Malaysian Boy Undergoes Landmark Procedure

Published in Blood Weekly, September 6th, 2001

A five-year-old Malaysian boy has likely been cured of a rare disease after receiving blood from a baby's umbilical cord by doctors who said that the transplantation is the first of its kind in the world.

The boy needed new blood stem cells because he was born with thalassemia major, a genetic blood disease which results in chronic anemia. If left untreated, the disease usually kills children before they reach grade school.

His transplantation was the first in the world to use umbilical cord blood from an unrelated donor, doctors in Singapore said August 13, 2001. The disease is traditionally cured by a risky bone marrow transplant with a brother...

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