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Publications of bone marrow transplants in Latin America. A report of the Latin American Group of Bone Marrow Transplantation

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The first bone marrow transplant (BMT) in Latin America was performed >30 years ago and since then several countries have started transplant programs.1, 2, 3 Recently, the Latin American Group of Bone Marrow Transplantation (LABMT) was founded as a member society of the Worldwide Network for Blood and Marrow Transplantation.2 Objectives of the LABMT include a registry of transplants and of publications. On the basis of published data on optimal transplant rates in Europe and North America, we calculated <10% of the ideal numbers of transplants are currently done in Latin America.1, 3 Argentina, Mexico and Brazil have the largest activity and despite annual increases, most transplants remain HLA-identical sibling and autotransplants.1 Challenges are cost, donor availability, numbers of transplant centers and lack of expertise. These issues need to be addressed for further progress in the region.1

Despite limitations and obvious biases in data collection, this information highlights activities of physicians performing transplants in Latin America in the hope that it will promote additional activity and support increased cooperation between countries and transplant centers within and outside our region. Following the World Health Organization guiding principles on transplantation it has to be mentioned that the data collection and analysis are integral parts of the therapy and hence, establishment of a registry should be a mandatory obligation.4

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  1. Centro de Hematología y Medicina Interna de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico

    G J Ruiz-Argüelles, L S Galindo-Becerra & N Labastida-Mercado

  2. Laboratorios Clínicos de Puebla, Clínica Ruiz, Puebla, Mexico

    G J Ruiz-Argüelles

  3. Escuela de Medicina, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Puebla, Mexico

    G J Ruiz-Argüelles

  4. Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico

    G J Ruiz-Argüelles, L S Galindo-Becerra & N Labastida-Mercado

  5. Servicio de Hematología, Hospital Clínica de Marly, Bogotá, Colombia

    V Abello-Polo

  6. Centro de Oncología, Hospital Sirio Libanes, Sao Paulo, Brasil

    C Arrais-Rodrígues

  7. Instituto Nacional de Cáncer—INCA, Río de Janeiro, Brasil

    L F Bouzas

  8. Universidad Estatal de Campinas, Campinas, Brasil

    C de Souza

  9. Centro Hospitalario Pereira Rossell, Montevideo, Uruguay

    G Dufort

  10. Instituto Pasteur de Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay

    R Gabus

  11. Servicio de Hematología, Hospital Universitario Dr. José Eleuterio González, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico

    D Gómez-Almaguer

  12. Centro de Oncología y Hematología, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Sao Paulo, Brasil

    N Hammerschlak

  13. Instituto de Hematología e Inmunología, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba

    J C Jaime-Fagundo

  14. Fundación Favaloro, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    G Jaimovich

  15. Instituto de Cancerología, Medellín, Colombia

    A J Karduss-Urueta

  16. Departamento Básico de Medicina, Facultad de Medicina, Hospital de clínicas, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay

    M Nese

  17. Medicina Interna, Universidad Federal de Paraná, Brasil

    R Pasquini

  18. Hospital Samaritano, Sao Paulo, Brasil

    A Seber

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Ruiz-Argüelles, G., Abello-Polo, V., Arrais-Rodrígues, C. et al. Publications of bone marrow transplants in Latin America. A report of the Latin American Group of Bone Marrow Transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant 50, 1130–1131 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2015.107

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