TY - JOUR TI - Factors influencing the success of cord blood collection: a tertiary perinatal medicine center’s experience AB - Background/aim: This study aimed to evaluate the effects of certain maternal, fetal, and umbilical cord blood unit factors on storageand/or discard incidence of collected cord blood units from perinatal medicine patients.Materials and methods: A total of 273 cord blood units collected between January 2011 and December 2016 in the Division ofPerinatology of Hacettepe University Hospital were evaluated retrospectively in this study.Results: Of the collected cord blood units, 53.8% (147/273) were stored. Infant birth weight, cord blood unit volume, total nucleatedcell count, and CD34+ cell count were statistically significantly different between the eligible and discarded cord blood unit groups (P <0.001 for all). No cord blood units were discarded owing to contamination-related issues. The mean gestational age for pregnant womenwhose umbilical cord blood was stored was 36.6 ± 1.0 weeks.Conclusion: Infant birth weight, cord blood unit volume, total nucleated cell count, and CD34+ cell count were significantly differentbetween the eligible and discarded cord blood unit groups. The low rate of specimen storage was most likely because of the uniquecharacteristics of perinatal medicine patients. Physicians should choose appropriate donors for cord blood collection to increase therate of cord blood utilization. AU - BEKSAÇ, Mehmet Sinan AU - Beksac, Meral AU - YURDAKUL MESUTOĞLU, PINAR AU - Aktoz, Fatih AU - TANAÇAN, Atakan AU - Orgul, Gokcen DO - 10.3906/sag-1802-54 PY - 2018 JO - Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences VL - 48 IS - 5 SN - 1300-0144 SP - 961 EP - 966 DB - TRDizin UR - http://search/yayin/detay/299474 ER -