BONE-MARROW TRANSPLANTATION IN HONG-KONG

Comprehensive programmes for BMT started in Hong Kong in 1990. As of S eptember 1993, there are a total of 13 BMT beds in Government-funded U niversity Hospitals performing about 110 transplants per year or 18 tr ansplants per million population per year. So far, 194 transplants wer e performed: allogeneic BMT (72.2%), autologous BMT (11.8%), matched u nrelated donor BMT (8.8%), identical twin BMT (1.5%), mismatched BMT ( 2.1%) and second BMT (3.6%). The major indication was haematological m alignancy (84%). About 40% of the patients were prepared by chemothera py alone. A combination of CsA and short MTX was the commonest GVHD pr ophylaxis. The incidence of GVHD was the same as in the Caucasians. Re sults of transplant outcome were comparable to those reported by the I nternational Bone Marrow Transplant Registry.