Promising Outcome of Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation in Patients with Multiple Comorbidities

• We assessed the clinical impact of HCT-CI in umbilical cord blood transplantation.• Umbilical cord blood (UCB) transplantation showed good OS despite the high HCT-CI.• Single-unit UCB is a promising stem cell source for patients with comorbidities.

Source: Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation - February 21, 2018 Category: Hematology Authors: Yoshitaka Adachi, Shun Ukai, Ken Sagou, Nobuaki Fukushima, Kazutaka Ozeki, Akio Kohno Source Type: research