Необходимостта от национален електронен регистър на живите донори в България
The Necessity for a National Living Donor Register in Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: The increase in applying living donor transplantations in the treatment of end-stage organ failure in recent days, created a whole new group of specific issues. Many clinical studies identify variety of risks associated with living organ donation. This leads to the need for a thorough long-term follow-up of donors, which could not be possible without a comprehensive register of living donors, allowing adequate research for complications, especially the long-term ones, which are otherwise rarely discussed by the transplantation industry. Directive 2010/53EU was created to regulate the transplantation systems in the European Union. It requires that the Member States should maintain national registers for following-up the health status, quality of life, long-term consequences, complications and mortality in living donors. ACCORD (Achieving Comprehensive Coordination in Organ Donation) is a European program for developing such unified electronic registers. It eventually aims the creation of a single European register unifying the follow-up data of all living donors across the European Union. Bulgaria, as a member of the European Union, is obliged to abide Directive 2010/53EU. Currently, the Executive Agency for Transplantation has virtually no follow-up information about the 212 living donors up to date. Therefore, consistently with the provisions of ACCORD, Bulgaria is required to establish and implement a national electronic register of all living donors under the administration of the Executive Agency for Transplantation.

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