Factors influencing the success of cord blood collection: a tertiary perinatal medicine center’s experience

Abstract

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