Umbilical Cord Blood

Stem Cell Uses

Today, cord blood stems cells are used in the treatment of nearly 80
life-threatening diseases, including a wide range of cancers, genetic
diseases, immune system deficiencies, and blood disorders (see list below).

Umbilical cord blood transplants help treat these life-threatening diseases.

Saving Lives

Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes

Amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia
Autoimmune neutropenia (severe)
Congenital dyserythropoietic anemia
Cyclic neutropenia
Diamond-Blackfan anemia
Evan’s syndrome
Fanconi anemia
Glanzmann’s disease
juvenile dermatomyositis
Kostmann’s syndrome
Red cell aplasia
Schwachman syndrome
Severe aplastic anemia
Congenital sideroblastic anemia
Thrombocytopenia with absent radius (TAR syndrome)
Dyskeratosis congenita

Cancers

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Burkitt’s lymphoma
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)
Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML)
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Langerhans cell histiocytosis
Lymphomatoid granulomatosis
Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)
Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML)

Blood Disorders/Hemoglobinopathies

Sickle-cell anemia (hemoglobin SS)
HbSC disease
Sickle ßo Thalassemia
a-thalassemia major (hydrops fetalis)
ß-thalassemia major (Cooley’s anemia)
ß-thalassemia intermedia
E-ßo thalassemia
E-ß+ thalassemia

Immunodeficiencies

Ataxia telangiectasia
Chronic granulomatous disease
DiGeorge syndrome
KK gamma deficiency
Immune dysregulation polyendocrineopathy X-linked
Mucolipidosis, Type II
Myelokathexis
X-linked immunodeficiency
Severe combined immunodeficiency
Adenosine deaminase deficiency
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
X-linked agammaglobulinemia
X-linked lymphoproliferative disease
Omenn’s syndrome
Reticular dysplasia
Thymic dysplasia
Leukocyte adhesion deficiency

Metabolic Disorders

Adrenoleukodystrophy
Gaucher’s disease (infantile)
Metachromatic leukodystrophy
Krabbe disease (globoid cell leukodystrophy)
Gunther disease
Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome
Hurler syndrome
Hurler-Scheie syndrome
Hunter syndrome
Sanfilippo syndrome
Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome
Mucolipidosis Type II, III
Alpha mannosidosis
Niemann Pick Syndrome, type A and B
Sandhoff Syndrome
Tay-Sachs Disease
Batten disease (inherited neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis)
Lesch-Nyhan disease