A younger brother’s cord blood was transfused to an older brother who is suffering from a malignant hemopathy.

Cord blood of a 3-year old boy that was stored in MEDIPOST’s CELLTREE cord blood bank at his birth was transfused to his older brother suffering from aplastic anemia at a university hospital in Suwon, Gyeonggi on September 27.

This transfusion involved intravenously injecting unprocessed cord blood of the younger brother to the older brother and restoring the function of the damaged marrow with the stem cells in the cord blood.

MEDIPOST explained, “Luckily the brothers shared all six HLAs (human leukocyte antigens) so we can expect very positive treatment results.”