Transfusion Medicine

Pre-1990 Blood Products Most Likely To Infect Hemophiliacs With Hepatitis Viruses

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, April 22nd, 2001

by Sonia Nichols, staff medical writer - Males with hemophilia are more likely to acquire hepatitis C or B virus (HCV, HBV) infections from blood products made prior to 1990, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers report.

Patients with hemophilia lack certain clotting factors in the blood, but those factors can be replaced with the use of commercially manufactured blood products. Before 1990, testing procedures for donor blood were not as sensitive for detecting hepatitis viruses as they are now, meaning patients receiving those blood products before 1990 are at a greater risk for developing viral infections.

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