Profiles of All 550 Procurements and Transplantations of Kidneys From Living Donors in Poland, 1967–2012

IntroductionNationwide live organ donor registry is mandatory to ensure the quality and safety of kidney procurement from living donors and for donor protection. In Poland, this concept is achieved with the use of an Internet tool (www.rejestry.net); donation centers are obligated to collect donors' data (demographic characteristics, including pre-, peri-, and post-donation and long-term follow-up). The registry currently handles data from 2008 but is incomplete in the collection of historical procurements. The goal of the research was to collect in one database all information regarding cases of kidney procurements and transplantations from living donors in Poland starting from the first such transplant in 1967.Materials and MethodsData were gathered from several existing but incomplete records stored by transplant centers.ResultsA total of 550 kidney procurements and transplantations from living donors were made in the years 1967 to 2012. We collected 100% of information on the date and donation centers and 100% of information regarding the recipients but only 65% of information regarding the donor and 80% regarding donor–recipient relations. According to the data, women accounted for 60% of living donors and men for 40% of living donors. The mean age of a donor was 45 years, and the mean age of a recipient was 28 years. Among related donors, parents constituted the majority (59%), siblings accounted for 21%, and spouses accounted for 12%.ConclusionsAlthough the collected data are incomplete, our research provided the Polish live-donor registry a solid starting point (eg, all dates, center procurements, records of transplantations) to enter remaining data and to build a serviceable tool for full assessment of all live-donor kidney donations in the country.