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Abstract
The transfusion of labile blood products is vital and essential for patients in absence of alternative treatment. Patients and doctors have always feared transfusion-transmitted infections by blood, blood components and blood-derived drugs. Photochemical inactivation of platelet concentrates and plasma, using a technique associating amotosalen and UVA, has been used for five years in a French region for the whole population and a large spectrum of patients, with efficacy and safety. It would seem wise to introduce labile blood products, submitted to pathogen inactivation by a technique already approved by a regulatory agency and not to wait for a perfect system including red blood cells concentrates. Universal implementation of pathogen inactivation in labile blood products is a major and key step to improve safety against infection in transfusion.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21474358 PMCID: PMC7110539 DOI: 10.1016/j.tracli.2011.02.023
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Transfus Clin Biol ISSN: 1246-7820 Impact factor: 1.406