Cord blood has been used in the medical industry for over three decades. One of the core benefits of cord blood banking is that this blood helps to treat almost 80 diseases, including different cancers and blood disorders.
Who can use the cord blood?
It might be confusing regarding who can utilize cord blood stem cells for treatment purposes – the baby or the sibling. The simple answer is both. It depends on the specific condition that is being treated. The treating physician has to make the final call after running a few tests.
Take a look at the disorders that can be treated successfully with the help of cord blood
Blood Disorder Types
- HbSC disease
- E-βo thalassemia
- E-β+ thalassemia
- α-thalassemia major (hydrops fetalis)
- β-thalassemia major (Cooley’s anemia)
- Sickle βo Thalassemia
- Sickle-cell anemia (hemoglobin SS)
- β-thalassemia intermedia
Bone Marrow Failure Syndrome
- Evan’s syndrome
- Amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia
- Congenital sideroblastic anemia
- Severe aplastic anemia
- Diamond-Blackfan anemia
- Fanconi anemia
- Cyclic neutropenia
- Dyskeratosis congenital
- Thrombocytopenia with absent radius (TAR syndrome)
- Glanzmann’s disease
- Kostmann’s syndrome
- Red cell aplasia
- Autoimmune neutropenia (severe)
Cancer
- Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
- Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
- Neuroblastoma
- Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)
- Burkitt’s lymphoma
- Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
- Hodgkin’s lymphoma chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML)
- Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML)
- Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)
Metabolic Disorders
- Alpha mannosidosis
- Hurler-Scheie syndrome
- Adrenoleukodystrophy Gaucher’s disease (infantile)
- Metachromatic leukodystrophy
- Hurler syndrome
- Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome
- Gunther disease
- Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome
- Lesch-Nyhan disease
- Sanfilippo syndrome
- Hunter syndrome
- Tay-Sachs disease
- Krabbe disease (globoid cell leukodystrophy)
- Niemann Pick Syndrome, type A and B
Immunodeficiencies
- Adenosine deaminase deficiency
- Chronic granulomatous disease
- Ataxia telangiectasia
- IKK gamma deficiency
- Reticular dysplasia
- Omenn’s syndrome
- Thymic dysplasia
- X-linked agammaglobulinemia
- Severe combined immunodeficiency
- X-linked Mucolipidosis, Type II
- Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
Others
- Osteopetrosis
- Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
- Langerhans cell histiocytosis
Acts as regenerative medicine
There have been plenty of instances where cord blood has been used in clinical research, and for the treatment of cerebral palsy, and autism. It is known as regenerative medicine. For diseases like neuroblastoma cancer, children can use their own blood as well as their sibling’s. Though a child with a genetic condition would need cord blood from a sibling or an unrelated donor. Thus, there are many benefits of cord blood banking that cannot be ignored.
Using Cord Blood for a sibling
Most of the conditions on the treatment list are inherited genetic conditions. The chances of success of a sibling cord blood unit are twice as compared to treatment using a cord blood unit from an unrelated individual. So, you see how crucial it is to store your baby’s cord blood? Call us at Cordlife today, before it’s too late!
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Despite such immense popularity of cord blood banking in the recent times, there are millions of people out there who are still not aware of the vast be benefits of storing your baby’s cord blood.
Benefits of Cord Blood Bank 