Transplants of Umbilical-Cord Blood or Bone Marrow from Unrelated Donors in Adults with Acute Leukemia
Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris · Hôpital Saint-Louis · +11 more institutions
Abstract
Promising results of cord-blood transplants from unrelated donors have been reported in adults.
We compared outcomes in 682 adults with acute leukemia who received a hematopoietic stem-cell transplant from an unrelated donor: 98 received cord blood and 584 received bone marrow. The transplantations were performed from 1998 through 2002 and reported to Eurocord and the European Blood and Marrow Transplant Group.
Recipients of cord blood were younger than recipients of bone marrow (median, 24.5 vs. 32 years of age; P
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- FWCI
- 31.21
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- 100%
- References
- 34
Authors
12- VRVanderson RochaCorresponding
Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Saint-Louis
- MLMyriam Labopin
Sorbonne Université, Hôpital Saint-Antoine
- GSGuillermo Sanz
Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe
- WAWilliam Arcese
University of Rome Tor Vergata
- RSRainer Schwerdtfeger
Deutsche Klinik für Diagnostik
Topics & keywords
- Medicine
- Cord blood
- Umbilical cord
- Bone marrow
- Transplantation
- Surgery
- Leukemia
- Acute leukemia
- Good health and well-being