Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide and cord blood stem cell transplantation.
Stem cell transplantation using cord blood donors mismatched for one or two HLA antigens can be successful. A simulation study was performed to assess the percentage of patients for whom a matched and/or a one or two antigen mismatched donor is available. Using either bone marrow donors worldwide (BMDW) (n = 925109) or the cord blood donor file in BMDW (n = 11049). As a donor source, for 97% of the Dutch patients a 0 or 1 antigen mismatched cord blood donor was available, for patients from the minority groups this percentage was 55%. These percentages compare favourably with the fraction of 0 mismatched donors found in BMDW.
Department of Immunohematology and Blood Bank, The Netherlands.
J J
JJ
van Rood
R F
RF
Schipper
J N
JN
Bakker
H G
HG
van der Zanden
M
M
Oudshoorn
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