title: Safety of Allogeneic Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells Therapy in Patients with Severe Cerebral Palsy: A Retrospective Study.
abstract: This retrospective study aimed to assess the safety of patients with severe cerebral palsy (CP), who received allogeneic umbilical cord blood stem cells (UCBSCs) treatment from August 2009 to December 2012 in Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine. A total of 47 patients with average age of 5.85 ± 6.12 years were evaluated in this study. There was no significant association with allogeneic UCBSCs treatments found in the data of the laboratory index . No casualties occurred. Some adverse events during treatments were found in 26 (55.3%) patients, including fever (42.6%) and vomiting (21.2%). Intrathecal infusion and the ages at the initiation of treatment (≤10 years old) were risk factors for the occurrence of adverse events by logistic regression analysis. However, all adverse events disappeared after symptomatic treatment. No treatment related serious adverse events were found in follow-up visits within 6 months. In conclusion, allogeneic UCBSCs treatment was relatively safe for severe CP patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Internal Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510120, China.
authors.forename: Mei
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.affiliation: Department of General Internal Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510120, China.
authors.forename: Aili
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: Department of General Internal Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510120, China.
authors.forename: Hongxia
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: Department of General Internal Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510120, China.
authors.forename: Caiwen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.affiliation: The School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China ; Shenzhen Beike Cell Engineering Research Institute, Shenzhen 518057, China.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of General Internal Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510120, China.
authors.forename: Tongxiang
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Department of General Internal Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510120, China.
authors.forename: Yuanqi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhao