Abstract

ROJAS MONTERO, G. M. et al. Descriptive study of activity of the bone marrow donor registry and bank from the Murcia Region (southeast of Spain) (1994-2004). An. Med. Interna (Madrid) [online]. 2006, vol.23, n.11, pp.525-528. ISSN 0212-7199.

Objective: To perform a descriptive study of the activity of the Bank of marrow donors from Murcia Region. Subjects and methods: All donors in the Bank of bone marrow from 1994 until 2004 (n=3137). This study analysed the number of donors, their origin and, performed donor searches activity. Donors were typed by serological microlymphocytotoxicity and molecular PCR-SSO and PCR-SSP techniques. Results: The Bank of bone marrow has 3,137 voluntary donors typed in low- and high-resolution. A total of 680 donor searches have been realized. The origin of the donors according to several Areas of Health in which the Autonomous Community of Murcia is divided, is the following one: Area I (28%), Area II (18 %), Area III (23 %), Area IV (6 %), Area VI (10 %) and other provinces (12%). Conclusions: An increase is observed in the number of annual donors as well as an increase very marked of donor searches that are realized every year, especially in 2004.

Keywords : Donor registry; Bone marrow transplant; HLA typing; Unrelated donor.

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