Would you consider banking your baby’s cord blood and tissues? Explain your deci

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Would you consider banking your baby’s cord blood and tissues? Explain your decision.

What are the general differences between private and public cord blood banks?

Would you prefer to keep the cord blood and tissues stored for family use or would you donate it to a public storage facility to be used by anyone (e.g., medical research, another patient)? Explain your decision.

What are some of the advantages of having matched MSC and HSC available?

How long can cord blood and tissues be stored and its cells remain viable?

Explanation / Answer

Cord blood bank is a facility to store UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD for future use. This has been developed in response to the potential for cord blood in TREATING DISEASES OF THE BLOOD AND IMMUNE SYSTEMS.  

So, yes surely the cord blood and tissues should be stored.

Public cord blood banks:

1) accept donations to be used for anyone in need. PUBLIC BLOOD BANKS

b) use national registries to find recipients

c) combine multiple samples together when preparing for a single patient. (As patients usually is in need of more than one cell)

Private cord blood banks:

a) store cord blood solely for potential use by the donor or donor's family.  

b) costly to patients

c) not covered by insurance

Recommendations of private blood banks:

1. Possibility of using one's own cord blood is 1 in 200000.

2. So far around 14 procedures performed in America.

3. Should be considered only in unusual circumstance when there exists a family predisposition to a condition in which umbilical cord stem cells are therapeutically indicated.

4. Private storage considered unlawful and discouraged.

Thus, one should support the public cord blood banking.

Advantages of matching MSC and HSC:

MSC- mesenchymal stem cells

HSC- haematopoietic stem cells

Prevents repeat graft rejection or failure

Cord blood banking has been in existence for last 25 years. So, no scientific data to prove the storage more than that is available. However,

Cryogenically preserved cells have no expiration date.

Frozen cord blood possibly can be stored indefinitely.

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