A special report: bone marrow transplants using volunteer donors--
recommendations and requirements for a standardized practice throughout the
world--1994 update. The WMDA Executive Committee
JM Goldman
Executive Committee of the World Marrow Donor Association, Leiden, The
Netherlands.
A primary function of the World Marrow Donor Association is to establish
general guidelines covering collaboration between international donor
registries and practice in regard to bone marrow transplants (BMTs) in
which the donor and recipient reside in different countries. To this end, a
special report proposing specific recommendations and requirements was
published in 1992. This paper amplifies the previous publication and gives
special attention to accreditation of national "hubs" (defined as
coordinating centers for each country) and donor, harvest, and transplant
centers, details of the marrow harvest procedure, use of peripheral blood
(PB) stem cells for allografting, and use of PB lymphoid cells for
treatment of leukemia relapsing after BMT.
Volume 84,
Issue 9,
pp. 2833-2839,
11/01/1994
Copyright © 1994 by The American Society of Hematology
