They inform the community about the importance of donating cells to perform a bone marrow transplant.

As part of the National Voluntary Bone Marrow Donor (hematopoietic hematopoietic progenitor cells) day, Escuela de Agudos Hospital "Dr. Ramón Madariaga" informs the community about the importance of cell donation for transplant and thus save the lives of people with hematological diseases.

Therefore, remember that in the aforementioned health center, CPH transplants are underway to treat conditions such as: leukemia, aplastic anemia, lymphoma, myeloma, metabolic errors or immunological deficits. Misiones records 157 donors registered with the CPH.

While explaining, only 25% to 30% of patients have the opportunity to find a compatible donor in their family group. Others need to use an unrelated donor through donor registries, including the Argentine registry, which is part of the global bone marrow donor network.

Since its creation in 2003, the list of volunteers has been growing every year and has become part of the global network.

In this sense, they indicate that the donation of CPH to Misiones is done in the blood bank, tissues and biological products "with the informed consent of the donor, a small sample is taken from a given unit of blood to perform the 39, badysis of their data. " genetic code (HLA). HLA data is entered into the computerized registry database. "

And they remind the public that the national registry of bone marrow donors is not the same as for organ donors and that the requirements are different.

The conditions to be a bone marrow donor are:

1. a) Be between 18 and 55 years old.
2. b) be in good health.
3. c) Weigh at least 50 kilograms.
4. d) Complete an information sheet published by the blood bank staff.
5. e) Give a unit of blood to take the sample from the HLA (histocompatibility) study and eliminate infectious diseases.

They also specify that HPCs are donated only if there is someone in the world who needs them and who is 100% compatible with the donor's genetic code.

Finally, they specify that the donation can be done by peripheral blood or by apheresis, which consists of a similar procedure to the donation of whole blood, but which lasts about 2 hours. The other method is to pierce and aspirate the cells located in the upper part of the pelvic bones.

Statistics

The Single Coordination Center for Ablation and Mission Implementation (CUCAIMIS) indicates that according to the records of the National Central Institute, coordinator of the ablation and the Implantation (INCUCAI), Misiones has 8,811 registered donors of CPH and that it was performed at the Hospital School of Acute Dr. Ramón Madariaga, 2 hematopoietic progenitor cell transplants.