MUD-cord-HSCT provides an optimal solution for MC and GVHD, with outcome comparable or even better than those of MSD-HSCT.KEY MESSAGESThe best choice of alternative donor for aplastic anaemia remains a clinical challenge, unrelated donors (URDs) or haploidentical (Haplo) donor?Umbilical cord blood (UCB) transfusion added matched unrelated donor (MUD) haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) exert nearly 0% cumulative incidence of mixed chimerism and grade II-IV acute/chronic GVHD;UCB added MUD-HSCT (MUD-cord-HSCT), which exert 100% three-year overall survival (OS) and 85.7% event free survival (EFS), rather than matched sibling donor (MSD)-HSCT, exert superiority in OS and EFS than mismatched URD (MMUD)-HSCT and haploidentical-HSCT.MUD-cord-HSCT provides an optimal solution for MC and GVHD, with outcome comparable or even better than those of MSD-HSCT.
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