The Austrian Bone Marrow Donor Registry: Providing Patients in Austria with Unrelated Donors for Transplant - a Worldwide Cooperation.

BACKGROUND: The Austrian Bone Marrow Donor Registry is the central search coordinating unit in charge of national and international donor searches in Austria. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Between 1988 and 2010, a worldwide search for an unrelated donor of blood stem cells (URD) was initiated for 2,166 Austrian patients with haematological disorders, 1,671 adults and 495 children, by the Austrian Bone Marrow Donor Registry. RESULTS: An URD was identified for 78.