Mizuki Watanabe, Takaaki Konuma, Nobuhiko Imahashi, Seitaro Terakura, Sachiko Seo, Satoko Morishima, Naoyuki Uchida, Noriko Doki, Masatsugu Tanaka, Tetsuya Nishida, Toshiro Kawakita, Tetsuya Eto, Satoshi Takahashi, Masashi Sawa, Yasufumi Uehara, Sung-Won Kim, Fumihiko Ishimaru, Tatsuo Ichinohe, Takahiro Fukuda, Yoshiko Atsuta, Junya Kanda
BACKGROUND: We conducted a retrospective study to categorize the cord blood unit (CBU)s to identify the optimal units. METHODS: A total of 8503 adults (female, n = 3592; male, n = 4911) receiving their first single cord blood transplantation (CBT) in 2000-2019 were analyzed. Factors associated with CBUs affecting overall survival (OS) and neutrophil engraftment were selected to create ranked categorization for each outcome, followed by comparison with transplantation using HLA-matched bone marrow (BMT)/peripheral blood stem cell (PBSCT) from unrelated (n = 6052) and related donors (n = 4546)...
December 27, 2023: Cytotherapy