Profile of Heart Donors from the Human Valve Bank of the Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Curitiba

Abstract

IntroductionHuman heart valves are used as replacement valves and have satisfactory functional results compared with conventional prostheses.ObjectiveCharacterize the profile of effective heart donors from the human valve bank of the santa casa de misericórdia de curitiba and analyze the association between the profile variables.MethodsIt consists of a retrospective and quantitative study of electronic medical records from heart donors for heart valves. every heart donation made to the bank between january 2004 and december 2014 was studied.Results2,149 donations were analyzed, from donors aged 0 to 71 years old, with an average of 34.9 ± 15.03 years old. most donors were male 65.7% (n=1,411) and 34.3% (n=738) were female. among the most frequent causes of the donors' death are trauma at 53% (n=1,139) and cerebral vascular accident at 34.2% (n=735). there was significant statistical association between the analyzed variables.ConclusionThere has been an improvement in brazil's donation rate, being essential that the tissue banks work together with the state and federal district centers for notification, procurement and distribution of organs in order to increase the number of donors.

Last twenty-years activity of cardiovascular tissue banking in Barcelona

“…During the last 8 years, the majority age group was 40–60 years old (53%), with the average age being 49 ± 2.43 years. Similar sex and age patterns were observed at the Brazilian Human Valve Bank where only 34.5% of the donor were female and 51.5% of the donors were over 36 years old (Ferreira et al 2016 ). On the other hand, the Canadian vascular graft bank reported an average donor age of 35 years, with 78% of men donors (Georges et al 2021 ).…”

“…This number has increased to 1439 hearts for heart valves and 7347 blood vessels in 2021 (EDQM Newsletter 2004 and 2022). Different TEs reported their activity with variable results: Berlin Homograft Bank (BHB) reported 927 hearts in the period between 2000 and 2009 (Delmo Walter et al 2012 ), while the European Homograft Bank (EHB) reported an average of 2021 hearts per decade in the last three decades from the donation network in Belgium, France, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Germany and Switzeland (Jashari 2021 ); and the Brazilian Human Valve Bank reported a total of 2149 hearts received in the period between 2004 and 2014 (Ferreira et al 2016 ). In our case, although the number of donors per year fluctuated between 120 donors and 286 donors, there is a tendency to increase from 1725 retrieved donors in the first decade (x̄ = 172.5 ± 38.5 donors per year) to 2363 donors retrieved during the second decade (x̄ = 214.8 ± 42.1 donors per year).…”