Journal Club: Cord-Blood Transplantation in Patients with Minimal Residual Disease.

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Event details

Speaker:

Dr. Shadiya AlKhan
Transfusion Medicine Physician Trainee
University of British Columbia

Event objectives:

  • Background information including current CBS practice for cord blood availability and collection
  • The article presentation
  • Critical appraisal of the article

References:

  1. Riccardo Saccardi et al, Impact of cord blood banking technologies on clinical outcome: a Eurocord/Cord Blood Committee (CTIWP), European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation and NetCord retrospective analysis, Transfusion August 2016
  2. Filippo Milano et al, Cord-Blood Transplantation in Patients with Minimal Residual Disease, Nejm September 2016
  3. Laughlin MJ, Barker J, Bambach B, Koc O, Rizzieri D, Wagner J et al. Hematopoietic engraftment and survival in adult recipients of umbilical-cord blood from unrelated donors. N Engl J Med 2001; 344: 1815–1822.
  4. Laughlin MJ, Eapen M, Rubinstein P, Wagner J, Zhang M, Champlin R et al. Outcomes after transplantation of cord blood or bone marrow from unrelated donors in adults with leukemia. N Engl J Med 2004; 351: 2265–2275.
  5. AABB Technical manual
  6. CBS cord blood related SOPs
  7. Wood BL. Flow cytometric monitoring of residual disease in acute leukemia. Methods Mol Biol 2013;999:123-36.
  8. Walter RB, Buckley SA, Pagel JM, et al. Significance of minimal residual disease before myeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation for AML in first and second complete remission. Blood 2013;122:1813-21.

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