Cord Blood Transplantations

In this book, experts in the field express their well-reasoned opinions on a spectrum of important and complex issues in the area of cord blood transplantation. The aim is to provide practicing hematologists, including hematopoietic transplant physicians, with clinically relevant and immediately app...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Horwitz, Mitchell (Editor), Chao, Nelson (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
SeriesAdvances and Controversies in Hematopoietic Transplantation and Cell Therapy
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319536286
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-53628-6
Physical DescriptionVI, 296 p. 14 illus., 7 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Historical perspective and current trends
  • Current cord blood banking concepts and practices
  • Strategies for Cord Blood Graft Selection: Single or double cord blood unit for transplant: What have we learned?- Immunogenetics and cell dose considerations in cord blood transplants: What does matters?- Ex-vivo cord blood manipulation: Methods, data and challenges
  • Conditioning regimens for cord blood transplants
  • Cord blood transplants for non-neoplastic hematologic diseases: Data, consensus and challenges
  • Cord Blood Transplants for Neoplastic Diseases in Children- Data, Consensus & Challenges: Cord blood transplants for myeloid malignancies in children
  • Cord blood transplants for lymphoid malignancies in children
  • Cord Blood Transplants for Neoplastic Diseases in Adults- Data, Consensus & Challenges: Cord blood transplants for myeloid malignancies in adults
  • Cord blood transplants for lymphoid malignancies in adults
  • Immune reconstitution after cord blood transplantation
  • Cord blood transplants for non-hematopoietic disorders
  • Cord blood transplants versus other sources of allografts: Comparison of data in adult setting
  • Unique complications and limitations of cord blood transplants
  • Future prospect of cord blood transplants. .