TABLE 1.
Diseases Treated by Umbilical Cord Blood Transplant by Using Either Sibling or Unrelated Donors
| Malignant Diseases | Nonmalignant Diseases |
|---|---|
| Acute lymphocytic leukemia | Fanconi anemia |
| Acute myelocytic leukemia | Idiopathic aplastic anemia |
| Juvenile chronic myelogenous leukemia | Thalassemia |
| Chronic myelogeneous leukemia | Sickle cell anemia |
| Neuroblastoma | Amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia |
| Myelodysplastic syndrome | Kostman syndrome |
| Blackfan-Diamond syndrome | |
| Severe combined immunodeficiency | |
| X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome | |
| Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome | |
| Hurler syndrome | |
| Hunter syndrome | |
| Gunther disease | |
| Osteopetrosis | |
| Globoid cell leukodystrophy | |
| Adrenoleukodystrophy | |
| Lesch-Nyhan syndrome |
Adapted from Cairo MS, Rocha V, Gluckman E, Hale G, Wagner J. Alternative allogenic donor sources for transplantation for childhood diseases: unrelated cord blood and haploidentical family donors [published correction appears in Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2008;14(11):1317–1318]. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2008;14(1, suppl 1):44–53. Copyright ©2008 American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation.