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Support and resources to help you make the best
selection for your patient
When you’re considering cord blood as a graft source for your patient’s transplant, you may have questions on cord selection,
conditioning regimens or post-transplant care. Or, you may be looking for resources to support your decisions.
NMDP can provide support and resources to help you to utilize cord blood with con昀椀dence.
SU PPORT
RESOU RCES
Cord blood consultation service
Cord Blood Practice Guidelines
Selecting the best CBU for your patient isn’t the same as selecting
an unrelated adult donor. Clinical and product factors may affect
your decision. You may have questions about what makes one CBU a
better choice than another. That’s why we offer a Cord Blood
Consultation service.
Cord blood as a graft source has unique considerations. The
Cord Blood Practice Guidelines offer consistent recommendations
to support clinicians from initial patient and CBU selection through
infusion and post-transplant care.
When you request the service, we connect you with a member of our
NMDP Clinical Services or Medical Services team who is experienced
in CBU selection and transplantation. The physician will call you to
discuss your speci昀椀c patient case and provide guidance based on
the nature of advice requested.
They’re available as open-access articles in the Transplantation and
Cellular Therapy journal or through ASTCT’s mobile app.
The guidelines are a collaborative effort between NMDP, the ASTCT
Committee on Practice Guidelines (CoPG) and the ASTCT Cord
Blood Special Interest Group (SIG).
Global search tool
Access an overview of domestic and international cord blood banks
to help you select the best cord source for your patients. The report
includes identi昀椀cation codes; the median turnaround time of typing
and shipment requests; and location of source in the Uni昀椀ed List
Type in NMDP MatchSource®.
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