1. Supportive Care Manual for Blood and Marrow Transplantation. Champlin R, Ippoliti C., Editors. Summit Communications, Armonk NY, 2007, 206 pages. (www.summitcom.com)

Although not prepared exclusively for cord blood transplantation, this manual concisely addresses both the indications and complications of the supportive pharmaceutical and care regimens involved in the supportive care of all hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) patients. The manual directly and practically addresses the most effective medical management for patients before, during and after HSCT, filling an unmet need in the current literature. Intended for the busy medical professional, the manual provides quick strategic direction on such issues as preparative regimens, drug interactions, toxicities, co-morbidities, infections, GVHD, and other post-transplant complications. Bibliographies are provided for each chapter. The manual is approximately 71⁄2 X 51⁄2 inches in size so it can readily fit into lab coat pockets.

The chapters in the book are:

1. Administration of the preparative regimen.
2. Drugs and drug interactions.
3. Managing non life-threatening transplant-related toxicities.
4. Managing life-threatening transplant-related toxicities.
5. Graft-versus-host disease: prevention and treatment.
6. Infectious disease post-transplant: prevention and treatment.
7. Transplant support.
8. Peripheral blood stem cell collection.

2. Thomas' Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, 3^rd edition. Blume KG, Forman SJ, Appelbaum FR, editors. Blackwell Publishing, Inc. Williston, VT, 2004,1563 pp.

This is an authoritative and all-inclusive book on hematopoietic cell transplantation. Drs. Hal Broxmeyer and Franklin Smith author the chapter on cord blood transplantation.

3. Clinical Bone Marrow and Blood Stem Cell Transplantation, Third edition. Atkinson K, Champlin R, Ritz J, Fibbe WE, Ljungman P, Brenner MK, editors. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2004, 1968 pp.

This is a comprehensive text with an international group of editors and distinguished contributors. The 1968 pages are conveniently divided into 14 sections reviewing the basic science and clinical aspects of hematopoietic cell transplantation. A chapter on umbilical cord blood transplantation was written by Drs. Eliane Gluckman and Vanderson Rocha.

4. Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation. Laughlin MJ, Lazarus HM.   Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2003, 454 pp.

A very readable yet comprehensive text logically divided into sections as follows: Historical perspective; Disease indications: Allogeneic transplantation; Allogeneic graft selection; Supportive care in allogeneic transplantation; Prevention and management of relapse after allogeneic transplantation; Preclinical studies in allogeneic transplantation; and Epilogue. Drs. Juliet Barker and John Wagner contribute a detailed chapter on umbilical cord blood transplantation.

5. Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation.  Mehta P.  Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Sudbury, MA, 2004, 486 pp.

A comprehensive text devoted to pediatric transplantation. The scientific basis of cell transplantation is reviewed in depth including a chapter in which Dr. Robert Good summarized “his life’s achievements in a chapter for this book.” Disease-specific indications are reviewed individually and a section is devoted to complications. Dr. Donna Wall authors an extensive chapter on umbilical cord blood transplantation.

6. Cord Blood: Biology, Immunology, Banking, and Clinical Transplantation. Broxyemer, HE, editor, American Association of Blood Banks, Bethesda, MD, 2004.

There are 17 chapters by 34 experts in the field, encompassing the present state of cord blood cells, banking and transplantation. There are four main focus areas: Phenotyping, genomics and function of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells from cord blood; The immune cells and immunology of cord blood and cord blood transplantation; Cord blood banking from "public" and "private" perspectives; and Current clinical cord blood transplantation.

7. Immune Hemolytic Anemias  Petz LD, Garratty G.  Elsevier Science (www.us.elsevierhealth.com; 1-800-545-2522)

This is the second edition of Acquired Immune Hemolytic Anemias, the first edition having been published 24 years ago!  There are 14 chapters, 3997 references and 572 pages. Of particular interest to those in the field of transplantation are the chapters on Immune Hemolysis Associated with Transplantation; Management of Immune  Hemolytic Anemias; Classification and Clinical Characteristics of Immune Hemolytic Anemias, including secondary cases (leukemias, lymphomas, carcinomas, autoimmune disorders, etc.); Blood Transfusion in Immune Hemolytic Anemias; Drug-Induced Immune Hemolytic Anemias; and Hemolytic Transfusion Reactions. Other chapters review historical concepts, the diagnosis of hemolytic anemia, mechanisms of immune hemolysis, the serologic investigation of immune hemolytic anemias, specificity of autoantibodies, and hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn.

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