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Nucleic acid testing in Colombian blood banks (2018-2024): Implementation, yield estimates and implications for safer transfusion policy. [PDF]

Vox Sang
Abstract Background and Objectives Colombia has a population of 52.6 million inhabitants and a blood donation rate of 26 donations per 1000 inhabitants. The 84 blood banks in the country collect approximately 1 million donations annually, which are mandatorily screened for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus ...
Bermúdez-Forero MI, García-Otálora MA.   +1 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Microbiological environmental contamination in the blood supply chain: An international survey by the bacterial subgroup of the ISBT Transfusion‐Transmitted Infectious Diseases Working Party

Vox Sanguinis, Volume 118, Issue 8, Page 656-665, August 2023., 2023
Abstract Background and Objectives Blood transfusion centres ensure the quality and safety of transfusable blood components. However, septic transfusion reactions involving environmental contaminants occur. An international survey issued by the ISBT Transfusion‐Transmitted Infectious Diseases Working Party (ISBT‐TTID‐WP) Bacterial Subgroup aimed to ...
Sandra Ramirez‐Arcos, Michel Garcia‐Otalora, Carl McDonald, ISBT Transfusion‐Transmitted Infectious Diseases Working Party, Subgroup on Bacteria   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identification of the haemoglobin level associated with a lower risk of complications after total hip and knee arthroplasty

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, Volume 67, Issue 5, Page 629-639, May 2023., 2023
Abstract Background Preoperative anaemia is associated with poor outcomes in surgical patients, but the preoperative haemoglobin cut‐off that determines lower morbidity in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and total hip arthroplasty (THA) is not well established.
Ane Abad‐Motos, Javier Ripollés‐Melchor, Carlos Jericó, Elvira Bisbe, Misericordia Basora, Maria J. Colomina, Ángel Becerra‐Bolaños, María Bermúdez‐López, Cristina Massa‐Gómez, Javier Albaladejo‐Magdalena, Ana Solar‐Herrera, Hanna Pérez‐Chrzanowska, Carlos Yárnoz, Jacobo José Fedriani‐de‐Matos, Beatriz Blanco‐Del‐Val, David Fabián‐González, Jorge Bellver, Juan M. Redondo‐Enríquez, Jordi Serrat‐Puyol, Alfredo Abad‐Gurumeta, Andrés Zorrilla‐Vaca, César Aldecoa, José Antonio García‐Erce, on behalf of the POWER2 Study Investigators Group   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mitigating the risk of transfusion‐transmitted infections with vector‐borne agents solely by means of pathogen reduction

Transfusion, Volume 62, Issue 7, Page 1388-1398, July 2022., 2022
Abstract Background This study evaluated whether pathogen reduction technology (PRT) in plasma and platelets using amotosalen/ultraviolet A light (A/UVA) or in red blood cells using amustaline/glutathione (S‐303/GSH) may be used as the sole mitigation strategy preventing transfusion‐transmitted West Nile (WNV), dengue (DENV), Zika (ZIKV), and ...
Susan L. Stramer, Marion C. Lanteri, Jaye P. Brodsky, Gregory A. Foster, David E. Krysztof, Jamel A. Groves, Rebecca L. Townsend, Edward Notari, Sonia Bakkour, Mars Stone, Graham Simmons, Bryan Spencer, Laura Tonnetti, Michael P. Busch   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Detection of Trypanosoma cruzi antibodies in multitransfused patients in Colombia

Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2017
Introduction: Chagas disease is a public health problem in Latin America. Even though vector-borne infection is the most important transmission mode for this disease, other modes such as transfusions require evaluation.
Mauricio Beltrán, Andrea Herrera, Astrid Carolina Flórez, Maritza Berrio, María Isabel Bermúdez   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Costs of Chagas’ disease screening test in blood donors in two Colombian blood banks, 2015

Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2018
Introduction: Transfusion is a mechanism of transmission of Chagas’ disease. There are no studies on the costs of the screening test in Colombian blood banks.
Nelson José Alvis, Diana Patricia Díaz, Liliana Castillo, Nelson Rafael Alvis, María Isabel Bermúdez, Olga Maritza Berrío, Mauricio Beltrán, Carlos Andrés Castañeda-Orjuela   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rendimiento del Kit de Chagas V2.0 IICS-UNA para el tamizaje de la enfermedad

Memorias del Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud, 2022
En Paraguay la enfermedad de Chagas es endémica, siendo el número de personas infectadas de aproximadamente 165.000 y la población expuesta del 30% según registros del 2012. El objetivo del trabajo fue evaluar el ELISA Chagas test IICS V2.0 para tamizaje
María Eugenia Acosta-de Hetter, Laura Aria, Ivalena de Guillén, Alejandra Rojas, Belén Infanzón, César Cantero, Cynthia Bernal, Kaspar Peter   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Seroprevalencia de citomegalovirus en donantes de órganos y receptores de trasplante renal, Colombia, 2010-2014

Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2016
Introducción. La infección por citomegalovirus ha cobrado gran importancia en los receptores de trasplantes debido a las implicaciones clínicas que puede tener en pacientes inmunocomprometidos. Objetivo.
Yazmín Rocío Arias-Murillo, Karime Osorio-Arango, Jorge Alberto Cortés, Mauricio Beltrán   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Frecuencia de grupos sanguíneos y factor Rh en donantes de sangre, Colombia ,1996

Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 1999
El establecer un patrón nacional de distribución de los grupos sanguíneos por seccionales de salud con base en los datos de donantes de banco de sangre, permite la localización e intercambio de sangre y componentes con fines de transfusión de una manera ...
Mauricio Beltrán, Maribel Ayala, Jorge Jara   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bancos de sangre y SIDA

ÁNFORA, 2018
En los 10 años transcurridos desde la investigación del virus del sida, epidemia ha afectado a todos los sectores de la sociedad y a todas las instituciones: familia, empresa, gobierno, ejército y comunidad en general. También ha influido profundamente en la práctica científica, médica y asistencial en el mundo entero.
Puyo G, María Alejandra, Cárdenas B., María del Rosario, Gámez Lora, Mauricio, Londoño, Luis Emilio, Sepúlveda R., Lina María   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources