PRACTICAL ASPECTS FOR DONOR SELECTION FOR UNRELATED TRANSPLANTATION OF HEMOPOIETIC STEM CELLS

Abstract

In cases when there is no HLA-compatible related donor, an unrelated donor is searched for in the data bases of international and national registers of donors for hemopoietic stem cells. The Minsk Municipal Registе of donors for marrow and hemopoietic stem cells was founded in 2009. At present it contains the data on more than 3,5 thousand donors described by HLA-phenotype. The HLA-typing Laboratory was organized in 2010 in Municipal Clinical Hospital № 9. Its main tasks are donor typing for Minsk Municipal register of donors for marrow and hemopoietic stem cells and to select pairs of donor-recipient for allogenic transplantation. Accreditation of HLA-typing Laboratory by European Federation of Immunogenetics and including of the national register into the IBMTR data base are a prospective goal.