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When is I blood product irradiation indicated?

When is I blood product irradiation indicated?

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The blood when treated with some X Ray or radiation is termed to be irradiated blood.It is indicated to prevent Transfusion Associated Graft-versus-Host disease.

Some of the cases where irradiated blood products indicated are

  • SCID (Congenital immunodeficiency disease)
  • Allogenic BMT recipients and donors
  • Cancer (Hoskins lymphoma)
  • Anti thrombocyte globulin therapy
  • Alemtuzimab therapy
  • If receiving blood from HLA matched donor
  • In the treatments of nucleocide analogue used for patient
  • Premature infants
  • Aplastic anemia
  • Intrauterine transfusion in case of deficiencies
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