Table 2.

Reasons for excluding the CBUs harvested

Exclusion criteria	%
Low volume or low total nucleated cell amounts	52–85
Bacterial cord blood unit (CBU) contaminations	5–17
Storage/transport time >48 h	1–16
Abnormal transport temperature	1–2
Incomplete documentation in hospital	2–3
Parents medical history	2–5
Abnormal maternal infectious disease testing	1–5
Problems during CBU processing	3–5
Clots	2–4

Notes: Data from recent unpublished experience in France and three large cohorts recently published with, respectively, 7,921 CBUs harvested and 2,014 CBUs stored; 31,128 CBUs harvested and 7,056 CBUs stored; and 1170 CBUs harvested and 735 CBUs stored.¹⁷,³⁶,³⁷