What are the advantages of Cord Blood Banking

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Advantages of Cord Blood Banking

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What is cord blood?
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• When a baby is born, and after the umbilical cord
  has been cut, a little blood remains in the
  placenta and in the portion of the umbilical cord
  attached to it
• This blood is known as cord blood

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What does cord blood contain?
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• Cord blood contains all the elements of blood
  white blood cells, red blood cells, plasma and
  platelets

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• Cord blood also contains hematopoietic stem cells
  which is similar to those found in bone marrow.
  Hence cord blood can be used as a substitute of
  bone marrow when needed

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How can cord blood be used?
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• Cord blood can be used to treat a large number of
  blood and immune system diseases
• Genetic or metabolic diseases can also be treated
  using cord blood

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Why donate cord blood?
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• Cord blood can be used by patients that dont
  have matching blood donors in their families or
  those that dont have unrelated bone marrow donors

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• Cord blood that does not necessarily match the
  patient can be used in transplants. This is a
  huge advantage when urgent requirements arise

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What are the advantages of Cord Blood?
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• Cord Blood collection is easy, safe.
• The collecting agency takes the blood from the
  placenta that is delivered and this process does
  not affect either the mother or the baby.

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• Cord Blood is collected well in advance, stored
  in below freezing temperatures and can be used
  whenever the requirement arises.
• Unlike bone marrow, no time is needed to locate a
  possible donor and see if he/she is willing to
  donate

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• Cord Blood transplants dont require perfect
  match. Studies show that cord blood transplants
  can take place when the match is partial. Bone
  marrow transplants on the other hand, require a
  perfect match

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• Immune cells in cord blood are lesser than those
  in bone marrow from unrelated donors that attack
  patients tissues

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• The chances of viral infections are much lesser
  in cord blood transplants since less than 1 of
  babies are born with lethal viruses

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Go ahead, make the right choice and protect your
familys future
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• Reading these points, we can see how important it
  is to save cord blood and how advantageous it is
  for patients
• To know more about Cord Blood visit
• ae.cryo-save.com/en/services/cryocord/