Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell donation—standardized assessment of donor outcome data: A consensus statement from the Worldwide Network for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (WBMT)

PBSC collection from family donors in Japan: a prospective survey

“…Allogeneic PBSC donation and transplantation are excellent medical procedures; donor safety remains an essential part in order to ascertain the future use of these techniques. 18,37 Our study has shown that the life-threatening SAEs can occur during or immediately after the donation process. These events are not erratic and risk factors can be identified.…”

“…No standardized or centralized reporting database was available 13 years ago. 18 Therefore, a prospective reporting study was initiated for family donors in Japan in the year 2000 to monitor the types and frequencies of adverse events potentially associated with PBSC donation, and to define factors associated with such events. We present here a comprehensive report summarizing the early adverse events (defined as within 30 days post donation) and late adverse events within 5 years post donation among 3264 consecutively pre-registered PBSC family donors from April 2000 to March 2005.…”

“…Department of Promotion for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Japan; 2 Department of Hematology and Cell Therapy, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya, Japan; 3 18 Department of Hematology, Japanese Red Cross Nagoya Daiichi Hospital, Nagoya, Japan; 19 Department of HSCT Data Management, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan; 20 Department of Preventive Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan; 21 …”

Having a sibling as donor: Patients' experiences immediately before allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

“…This may entail ethical concerns. There is work ongoing to define the criteria for donor eligibility in general (Halter et al, 2013).…”

Quality control and assurance in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation data registries in Japan and other countries

“…Collaborative activities by international registries are not limited to producing scientific publications; data are also shared among major international registries/or national and international registries to reduce the effort of duplicate data submission. The Worldwide Network for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (WBMT), a non-government organization, was created by international registries and its activities include networking and facilitating transplant-related activities [9] worldwide. The WBMT has conducted several global surveys to investigate global and regional trends in HSCT, in relation to socioeconomic status, team density, and other factors [31][32][33].…”