UK experience of unrelated cord blood transplantation in paediatric patients

Br J Haematol. 2016 Feb;172(3):482-6. doi: 10.1111/bjh.13914. Epub 2016 Jan 5.

Authors

Paul Veys¹, Robert Danby^{2

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4}, Ajay Vora⁵, Mary Slatter⁶, Robert Wynn⁷, Sarah Lawson⁸, Colin Steward⁹, Brenda Gibson¹⁰, Mike Potter¹¹, Josu de la Fuente¹², Geoff Shenton¹³, Jacqueline Cornish⁹, Andrew Gennery⁶, John A Snowden^{5

14}, Denise Bonney⁷, Mark Velangi⁸, Annalisa Ruggeri⁴, Eliane Gluckman⁴, Rachael Hough¹⁵, Vanderson Rocha^{2

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4}; British Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Eurocord

Affiliations

¹ Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK. [email protected].
² Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, UK.
³ NHS Blood and Transplant Oxford Centre, Oxford, UK.
⁴ Eurocord, Hôpital Saint Louis APHP, Paris, France.
⁵ Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield, UK.
⁶ Great North Children's Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
⁷ Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester, UK.
⁸ Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, UK.
⁹ Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol, UK.
¹⁰ Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, UK.
¹¹ Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, UK.
¹² St Mary's Hospital and Imperial College, London, UK.
¹³ Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK.
¹⁴ Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK.
¹⁵ University College Hospital, London, UK.

PMID: 26728432
DOI: 10.1111/bjh.13914

No abstract available

Keywords: leukaemia; non-malignant disease; paediatric; transplantation; umbilical cord blood.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Child
Child, Preschool
Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplantation / statistics & numerical data*
Female
Graft Survival
Hematologic Diseases / therapy*
Histocompatibility Testing
Humans
Infant
Male
Survival Analysis
Transplantation Conditioning / methods
United Kingdom