Preservation and clinical application of umbilical cord blood for personal use-review / 中国实验血液学杂志

ABSTRACT

Human umbilical cord blood (CB) is one potential source of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) and progenitor cells, and it has been used to successfully treat leukemia, lymphoma, myelodysplastic syndrome, aplastic anemia, hemoglobinopathies, metabolic storage diseases, and immunodeficiencies. With the establishment of CB bank and increased cases of CB transplantation in clinical use, more and more parents today choice to donate the CB to a public CB bank, or to keep and store the CB in a private bank for potential use in the future. In this article, the current status of CB preservation and clinical application of CB for personal use are reviewed.