Cord Blood Transplantations

1. Historical Perspective and Current Trends of Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation
Eliane Gluckman, Annalisa Ruggeri

2. Current Cord Blood Banking Concepts and Practices
Kristin M. Page, Joanne Kurtzberg

Part I. Strategies for Cord Blood Graft Selection

3. Single or Double Cord Blood Unit for Transplant: What Have We Learned?
Jaime Sanz, Juan Montoro, José Luis Piñana, Guillermo F. Sanz

4. Cell Dose and Immunogenetic Considerations in Cord Blood Transplantation
Ioannis Politikos, Juliet N. Barker

5. Ex Vivo Cord Blood Manipulation: Methods, Data, and Challenges
Rohtesh S. Mehta, Elizabeth J. Shpall

6. Conditioning Regimens for Cord Blood Transplantation
Kelly Ross, Jonathan Gutman

7. Cord Blood Transplants for Nonmalignant Disorders: Data, Consensus, and Challenges
Vinod K. Prasad

Part II. Cord Blood Transplants for Neoplastic Diseases in Children: Data, Consensus and Challenges

8. Cord Blood Transplants for Myeloid Malignancies in Children
Andrew C. Dietz, Michael R. Verneris

9. Cord Blood Transplantation for Lymphoid Malignancies in Children
Hisham Abdel-Azim, Michael A. Pulsipher

Part III. Cord Blood Transplants for Neoplastic Diseases in Adults: Data, Consensus and Challenges

10. Cord Blood Transplants for Myeloid Malignancies in Adults
Erica Warlick

11. Cord Blood Transplants for Lymphoid Malignancies in Adults
Veronika Bachanova

12. Immune Reconstitution After Cord Blood Transplantation
Ioannis Politikos, Vassiliki A. Boussiotis

13. Cord Blood Therapies for Genetic and Acquired Brain Injuries
Jessica M. Sun, Joanne Kurtzberg

14. Cord Blood Transplants Versus Other Sources of Allografts: Comparison of Data in Adult Setting
Rohtesh S. Mehta, Claudio G. Brunstein

15. Limitations and Unique Complications of Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation
Zeina Al-Mansour, Stephanie Tsai, Patrick Stiff

16. Future Prospects of Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation
Mitchell E. Horwitz

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Hematology, Oncology