Activity of the National Polish Bone Marrow Donor Registry--analysis of the matching process successfully completed with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
The activity of the National Polish Bone Marrow Donor Registry includes: (1) recruitment and typing of volunteer donors for the registry; (2) primary and confirmatory typing of patients and their families for sibling and family alternative donor transplantations; and (3) donor-recipient matching. There has been an improvement regarding the number of procedures (184 vs 201) and the successfully completed matches (102 vs 145) in 2006-2007 vs 2008-2009, respectively. The success rate of conclusive matching depended on the number of donors in a given registry and the incidence of rare HLA B-C or DR-DQ associations and specificities. In 2008-2009, Polish, German and all European registries, finally matched 129 (out of all 145) donors including 3, 18, 4 donors for patients with and 30, 68, 6 donors for patients without difficult HLA specificities and associations, respectively. Among the HLA-difficult patient group those lacking a donor in Europe and Israel were successfully matched in the USA (10/11 patients); the only one other subject was matched with a donor from Australia.
Lower Silesian Center for Cellular Transplantation with National Bone Marrow Donor Registry, Wroclaw, Poland. lange@dctk.wroc.pl
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Dera-Joachimiak
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Madej
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Koscinska
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D001853:Bone Marrow; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006801:Humans; D011044:Poland; D012042:Registries