Cord
blood transplantation is one of the techniques that is highly preferred
to supply the required amounts of stem cells. Such kind of transplant
is required in case of persons suffering from leukemia, hemophilia
etc.
Since
such patients may encounter difficulties often to search and obtain
the donors of bone marrow in order to supply the required hemopoietic
cells. In such
patients, the cord blood transplantation will be of definite help
for the recovery.Cord blood transplantation is of more useful in treating
the lymphoma and autoimmune related disorders in a patient. Cord
blood transplantation is becoming increasingly popular because of
the fact that the special type of cells in this cord blood is similar
to the cells of bone marrow. Hence,
the cord blood transplantation is of more useful one. It is interesting
to note that in some persons, malignant diseases like leukemia or
non-malignant disorders affect the bone marrow. There
are recorded incidences of affections in bone marrow due to the genetic
disorders, also. In such cases, the cord blood transplantation may
be carried out by means of stem cells transplantation at the bone
marrow itself. Whenever
the cord blood transplantation is carried out in the bone marrow of
ailing persons, the cellular pattern in bone marrow gets some drastic
changes but is the highly preferred one by medical experts. As a
net result, there is repopulation of basic cells at the bone marrow
of the concerned persons who have undergone such transplantation of
cord blood cells. These
cells after the transplantation at the bone marrow start growing like
main cells similar to the original ones, thus posing a healthy trend
in the concerned patients. Viral
contamination is less with umbilical cord blood transplants.Cord blood
transplantation needs serial of steps to be followed meticulously
if one has top achieve success in this procedure. Proper
collection of cord blood in the blood collection kit and perfect storage
of cord blood in liquid nitrogen that maintains the temperature of
minus 196 degree Celsius and proper dispatch of cord blood may be
considered as the associated factors related to the cord blood transplantation.
The improperly
maintained cord blood due to lack of liquid nitrogen or careless storing
and sending of cord blood for transplantation purposes may lead to
infection certain times. Hence, extreme care is to be taken in order
to make the transplantation successful. Non-malignant
disease conditions that warrant such cord blood transplantation include
diseases like Hurler syndrome, aplastic anemia, Hurler syndrome etc.
Similarly,
the malignant diseases that warrant cord blood transplantation include
diseases like multiple myeloma, neuroblastoma, chronic myelocytic
leukemia etc.
Role
of Cord blood transplant in leukemia & hemophilia treatment