Last February, Dr. Lin Kai-hsin, attending physician of National Taiwan University Hospital's Pediatrics Department, attempted a transplant of "autologous" cord blood (I.e., cord blood from the patient's own body) on a young boy surnamed Wang who had cerebral palsy caused by hypoxia (lack of oxygen in the brain).
今年 2 月，台大醫院小兒部主治醫師林凱信，嘗試為生產時腦部缺氧導致腦性麻痺的王小弟做自體臍帶血移植。