title: [Descriptive study of activity of the bone marrow donor registry and bank from the Murcia Region (southeast of Spain) (1994-2004)].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To perform a descriptive study of the activity of the Bank of marrow donors from Murcia Region.
  
  
  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.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Inmunología, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia.
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Rojas Montero
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Alvarez López
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: López Bermejo
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Moya Quiles
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Muro Amador
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012042:Registries; D013030:Spain; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*