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 Switch Mat HLA-matched donor.UCB present many advantages over bone marrow or mobilized peripheral blood from volunteer donors, such as rapid availability, absence of risk for the donor,