Cord Blood Transplantation for Sickle Cell Anemia and Thalassemia

Summary

This study will develop a national cord blood bank for siblings of patients with hemoglobinopathies and thalassemia.

Timeline

Start

1999-01

Primary completion

2006-08

Completion

2006-08

Publications

• Background Reed W, Walters M, Lubin BH. Collection of sibling donor cord blood for children with thalassemia. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2000 Nov-Dec;22(6):602-4. doi: 10.1097/00043426-200011000-00031.
• Background Lubin BH, Eraklis M, Apicelli G. Umbilical cord blood banking. Adv Pediatr. 1999;46:383-408. No abstract available.
• Background Woodard P, Lubin B, Walters CM. New approaches to hematopoietic cell transplantation for hematological diseases in children. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2002 Oct;49(5):989-1007. doi: 10.1016/s0031-3955(02)00026-3.
• Background Reed W, Smith R, Dekovic F, Lee JY, Saba JD, Trachtenberg E, Epstein J, Haaz S, Walters MC, Lubin BH. Comprehensive banking of sibling donor cord blood for children with malignant and nonmalignant disease. Blood. 2003 Jan 1;101(1):351-7. doi: 10.1182/blood-2002-02-0394. Epub 2002 Aug 8.
• Background Locatelli F, Rocha V, Reed W, Bernaudin F, Ertem M, Grafakos S, Brichard B, Li X, Nagler A, Giorgiani G, Haut PR, Brochstein JA, Nugent DJ, Blatt J, Woodard P, Kurtzberg J, Rubin CM, Miniero R, Lutz P, Raja T, Roberts I, Will AM, Yaniv I, Vermylen C, Tannoia N, Garnier F, Ionescu I, Walters MC, Lubin BH, Gluckman E; Eurocord Transplant Group. Related umbilical cord blood transplantation in patients with thalassemia and sickle cell disease. Blood. 2003 Mar 15;101(6):2137-43. doi: 10.1182/blood-2002-07-2090. Epub 2002 Nov 7.
• Background Reed W, Walters M, Trachtenberg E, Smith R, Lubin BH. Sibling donor cord blood banking for children with sickle cell disease. Pediatr Pathol Mol Med. 2001 Mar-Apr;20(2):167-74.
• Leonard A, Furstenau D, Abraham A, Darbari DS, Nickel RS, Limerick E, Fitzhugh C, Hsieh M, Tisdale JF. Reduction in vaso-occlusive events following stem cell transplantation in patients with sickle cell disease. Blood Adv. 2023 Jan 24;7(2):227-234. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2022008137.

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