Title |
Pathogen Inactivation of Cellular Blood Products—An Additional Safety Layer in Transfusion Medicine
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Published in |
Frontiers in Medicine, December 2017
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DOI | 10.3389/fmed.2017.00219 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Axel Seltsam |
Abstract |
In line with current microbial risk reduction efforts, pathogen inactivation (PI) technologies for blood components promise to reduce the residual risk of known and emerging infectious agents. The implementation of PI of labile blood components is slowly but steadily increasing. This review discusses the relevance of PI for the field of transfusion medicine and describes the available and emerging PI technologies that can be used to treat cellular blood products such as platelet and red blood cell units. In collaboration with the French medical device manufacturer Macopharma, the German Red Cross Blood Services developed a new UVC light-based PI method for platelet units, which is currently being investigated in clinical trials. |
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