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Trial reportWorld journal of clinical pediatrics2025

Autologous cord blood

Felician A Stancioiu, Raluca Bogdan, Bogdan Ivanescu, Radu Dumitrescu

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Trial report in World journal of clinical pediatrics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Felician A StancioiuDepartment of Clinical Research, Bio-Forum Foundation, Bucharest 040245, Bucuresti, Romania. felicians@bio-forum.net.
Raluca BogdanDepartment of Pediatrics, Medicover Hospital Bucharest, Bucharest 013982, Bucuresti, Romania.
Bogdan IvanescuDoctor MiT Clinic, Bucharest 013929, Bucuresti, Romania.
Radu DumitrescuDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Medicover Hospital, Bucharest 013982, Bucuresti, Romania.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCellular therapies have started an important new therapeutic direction in autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), and the ample diversity of ASD pathophysiology and the different types of cell therapies prompt an equally ample effort to employ clinical studies for studying the ASD causes and cell therapies. Stem cells have yielded so far mixed results in clinical trials, and at patient level the results varied from impressive to no improvement. In this context we have administered autologous cord blood (ACB) and a non-placebo, material intervention represented by an individualized combination of supplements (ICS) to ASD children.

aimTo compare the efficacy of ACB

methodsCORDUS clinical study is a crossover study in which both oral ICS and intravenous ACB were sequentially administered to 56 children; ACB was infused as an inpatient procedure. Treatment efficacy was evaluated pre-treatment and post-treatment at 6 months by an independent psychotherapist with Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist, Quantitative Checklist for Autism in Toddlers and a 16-item comparative table score, after interviewing the children's parents and therapists. Before and after each intervention participants had a set of blood tests including inflammatory, metabolic and oxidative markers, and the neuronal specific enolase.

resultsNo serious adverse reactions were noted during and after cord blood or supplement administration. ACB improved evaluation scores in 78% of children with age 3-7-years (

conclusionACB has superior efficacy to ICS in ASD; high inflammation, ferritin, age and body weight predict less improvement; more clinical studies are needed for studying ACB efficacy in ASD.

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Autistic spectrum disorderAutologous stem cell treatmentCord bloodNeuroinflammationNeuronal specific enolaseStem cells

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