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Post by antonskafi on Jul 19, 2017 15:11:27 GMT 2
have a question for the doctor. Does irradiating blood destroy bacteria in the donor blood or does it only destroy white blood cells? Why doesn't the radiation alter viruses carried in blood? Is it not enough radiation to have that type of effect?
I have a follow-up question. Who should get irradiated blood ?. I only get leukocyte reduced blood. I have had splenectomy and have 4 antibodies.
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Post by Doc on Jul 25, 2017 13:12:35 GMT 2
I apologise for this delay but my skills in this technology are too low and as a result, I got rubbed out.
Irradiated blood is very rarely used in thalassaemia, mainly if a very rare complication arises. This complication is called transfusion associated graft-versus- host disease. There are other indications but rare again and certainly, it is never used for the routine transfusion in thalassaemia. Even though radiation does remove a certain type of white cell (T-lymphocytes), it does not remove granulocytes (in fact granulocyte components are irradiated before being transfused) which are the type of white cells which are removed by filtration. So filtration is what we recommend for thalassaemia and not irradiated blood.
For removing bacteria and viruses, other methods are being developed which will soon be in use.
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