Umbilical Cord Blood Transplants: Current Status and Evolving Therapies
Hematopoietic cell transplants using stem cells from umbilical cord blood are used worldwide for the treatment of malignant and non-malignant disorders.
Ashish O. Gupta, J. Wagner
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Placental blood transfusion in newborn babies reaches a plateau after 140 s: Further analysis of longitudinal survey of weight change [PDF]
Objective: With the introduction of active management of the third stage of labour in the 1960s, it became usual practice to clamp and cut the umbilical cord immediately following birth.
Cattle, B+4 more
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Umbilical Cord Abnormalities and Stillbirth.
OBJECTIVE Umbilical cord abnormalities are commonly cited as a cause of stillbirth, but details regarding these stillbirths are rare. Our objective was to characterize stillbirths associated with umbilical cord abnormalities using rigorous criteria and ...
I. Hammad+13 more
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Lipidomics of human umbilical cord serum : identification of unique sterol sulfates [PDF]
Aim: There are currently limited lipidomics data for human umbilical cord blood. Therefore, the lipidomes of cord sera from six newborns and sera from six nonpregnant females were compared.
Knip, Jan Mikael+2 more
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Successful treatment of a patent urachus concurrent with pyocele in a newborn
. Rationale:. A patent urachus is a rare congenital anomaly that atypically presents as an umbilical cord cyst or large umbilical cord. Here we describe a case of a giant umbilical cord cyst in a newborn diagnosed as a patent urachus.
Susie Kang, MD+6 more
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A risk factor analysis of outcomes after unrelated cord blood transplantation for children with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome [PDF]
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome is a severe X-linked recessive immune deficiency disorder. A scoring system of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome severity (0.5-5) distinguishes 2 phenotypes: X-linked thrombocytopenia and classic Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome.
Alseraihy, Amal+21 more
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Incidence of umbilical cord around the neck and its effects on mode of delivery and fetal outcome at tertiary care hospital [PDF]
Background: Umbilical cord is one of the fetal membranes. It is developed from the yolk sac. Umbilical cord is tubular structure. Approximate length of the cord is 50 cm. Umbilical cord around the neck is called as the nuchal cord.
Anuradha, C. R.+4 more
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ASSOCIATION OF UMBILICAL CORD LENGTH WITH MODE OF DELIVERY
OBJECTIVE: To find out the average length of umbilical cord, variation in umbilical cord length in our antenatal women and to see the the association of umbilical cord length with mode of delivery. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was carried out
Tanveer Shafqat+2 more
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Correlation between isolated sonographic finding of umbilical cord cyst and fetal anomalies [PDF]
OBJETIVO: Correlacionar o achado ultra-sonográfico isolado de cisto de cordão umbilical com anomalias fetais, como cromossomopatias e alterações estruturais.
CERRI, Giovanni Guido+4 more
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Umbilical cord and preeclampsia
INTRODUCTION: Preeclampsia is associated with abnormalities in the umbilical cord in several ways: morphological, biochemical and functional. Alteration in blood vessels of the placenta, decidua and circulatory system of the fetus might be related to factors that cause preeclampsia and may be associated with alterations of the umbilical cord ...
Olaya-C M.+5 more
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