[Use of autologous progenitor cells of the bone marrow in treatment of patients with lower-limb atherosclerosis obliterans].

Presented herein are the outcomes of using autologous progenitor cells of the bone marrow in a total offorty-two male patients suffering from atherosclerosis obliterans of the lower-limb arteries with degree II B of ischaemia according to the classification of A. V. Pokrovsky, preconditioned by involvement of the femoropopliteal-tibial segment with no possibility to perform a reconstructive operation.

[Optimization of isolation of the concentrate of stem cells from the umbilical blood].

Aim: To study correlations between body mass and height of the newborn, Apgar scale estimates, gestation time, volume of the obtained umbilical blood (UB), number of nucleated cells (NC); to compare manual and automatic modes of UB processing.

Material And Methods: 330 procurements of UB were made, 230 (69.7%) samples were frozen.