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ReviewTransfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie2014

Pathogen inactivation technologies for cellular blood components: an update.

Peter Schlenke

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Review in Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

48 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Platelet Transfusion for Patients with Cancer: An Update.Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie · 2025
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  8. Analysis of Transfusion-Transmitted Bacterial Infections according to German Hemovigilance Data (2011-2020).Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie · 2023
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  10. Hemoglobin Oxidation Reactions in Stored Blood.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  16. Novel approaches for COVID-19 diagnosis and treatment: a nonsystematic review.Turkish journal of biology = Turk biyoloji dergisi · 2021
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  18. Infectious complications in neonatal transfusion: Narrative review and personal contribution.Transfusion and apheresis science : official journal of the World Apheresis Association : official journal of the European Society for Haemapheresis · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Peter SchlenkeDepartment for Blood Group Serology and Transfusion Medicine, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nowadays patients receiving blood components are exposed to much less transfusion-transmitted infectious diseases than three decades before when among others HIV was identified as causative agent for the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and the transmission by blood or coagulation factors became evident. Since that time the implementation of measures for risk prevention and safety precaution was socially and politically accepted. Currently emerging pathogens like arboviruses and the well-known bacterial contamination of platelet concentrates still remain major concerns of blood safety with important clinical consequences, but very rarely with fatal outcome for the blood recipient. In contrast to the well-established pathogen inactivation strategies for fresh frozen plasma using the solvent-detergent procedure or methylene blue and visible light, the bench-to-bedside translation of novel pathogen inactivation technologies for cell-containing blood components such as platelets and red blood cells are still underway. This review summarizes the pharmacological/toxicological assessment and the inactivation efficacy against viruses, bacteria, and protozoa of each of the currently available pathogen inactivation technologies and highlights the impact of the results obtained from several randomized clinical trials and hemovigilance data. Until now in some European countries pathogen inactivation technologies are in in routine use for single-donor plasma and platelets. The invention and adaption of pathogen inactivation technologies for red blood cell units and whole blood donations suggest the universal applicability of these technologies and foster a paradigm shift in the manufacturing of safe blood.

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BacteriaBlood safetyChikungunya virusDengue virusHemovigilancePathogen inactivationPlatelet concentratesProtozoaRandomized clinical trialRed blood cellsWest Nile virus

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PMID25254027
PMCPMC4164100

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