"Update on 260 Recipient and 438 Donor-Initiated Look Backs Spanning 8 Years With 4.4 MIO Donations Given By About 850,000 Northern German Blood Donors."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Blood Banks, held October 31 - November 4, 1998, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, "Background: We analyzed all look backs from 1990 to 1997: Group 1: Recipients subsequently presenting confirmed infectious disease parameters (CIDP) suspectedly due to virus transmission by transfusion (VTT, n=260). Group 2: Recipients (n=147) of tested negative products whose donors subsequently presented with CIDP (window donations from 111 seroconverting donors, reflecting CIDP-incidence). Group 3: Recipients (n=291) of previously HCV-untested products whose 176 donors tested confirmed...

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