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Hospital Nacional de Pediatria Garrahan

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Bank Director: Silvina Kuperman, MD

Banco Público de Sangre de Cordón Umbilical (BSCU) del Hospital Prof. Dr. Juan P. Garrahan.This is the national public cord blood bank of Argentina.

In 1996 our hospital began a related donor program for collecting umbilical cord blood, intended for families who are expecting a baby and who already have a child with a disease in which hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is a therapeutic alternative. While initially only families who belonged to our hospital enrolled, after May 2000 the related program was open to the entire country. Today the hospital also accepts cord blood donations from families who wish to give altruistically to help unrelated patients.

Families are enrolled into the related program through their treating physicians who refer them through a form that must be completed and signed previously. To request this form the treating physician must send an email to bscu@garrahan.gov.ar.

Enrolled mothers deliver their babies with midwives belonging to our program. If necessary, we will provide all the information to your obstetrician or midwife for training in performing cord blood collection.

After the birth of the baby, the cord blood collection must be transported immediately to our bank for processing and cryopreservation at the Laboratory of Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells. As part of the program related studies of transfusion-transmitted diseases, immunologic, and microbiologic are performed. Moreover, the lab also does the typing of histocompatibility antigens HLA-A, -B and -DR for the cord blood unit, the potential recipient, and both parents. The results will be promptly reported to the patient's attending physician.

Contact info

Phone:
Hospital: +54 11 4308-4300
Bank: +54 11 4122-6007
Address: 15 de Noviembre de 1889, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Email: bscu@garrahan.gov.ar
URL: https://www.garrahan.gov.ar/banco-publico-sangre-de-cordon-umbilical/hemoterapia…


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