114906

Is blood transfusion safety will be a challenge during COVID-19 infection?

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Cardiothoracic Surgery.
Endocrinology, Hematology, Metabolic diseases
Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Abstract

Recently the world faces a pandemic of infection with the new coronavirus which discovered first in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, which lead to a wide variety of symptoms ranging from mild symptoms to marked respiratory distress and pneumonia of unexplained etiology, it cause terrorism all over the world. According to the world health organization, it is considered an international public health emergency. Infection with the new coronavirus is considered one of the most common widespread infectious diseases in addition to viruses like SASR and MERS. although coronaviruses mostly infect the respiratory system, Viral shedding may, unfortunately, occur in blood, so there is a risk of transmission of coronavirus by blood transfusion, this will be a major problem for patients depending on repeated blood transfusions such as cancer patients, blood disorders patients and pregnant women in need for blood transfusion so special considerations should be given to the safety of blood transfusion especially with the appearance of asymptomatic carriers.

DOI

10.21608/smj.2020.27593.1135

Keywords

Blood transfusion, COVID-19, Cancer patients

Authors

First Name

Marwa

Last Name

Elsayed

MiddleName

Zanaty

Affiliation

Internal medicine department haematology unit Sohag university hospital Egypt

Email

zanaty.marwa@yahoo.com

City

Sohag

Orcid

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First Name

sara

Last Name

abdelaal

MiddleName

kasem

Affiliation

internal medicine department.faculty of medicine.sohag university hospital

Email

kasemsara719@gmail.com

City

sohag

Orcid

-

First Name

ahmed

Last Name

ahmed

MiddleName

abdelrahem

Affiliation

obstetrics and gynecology department,faculty of medicine Sohag university .

Email

ahmedoramy@yahoo.com

City

sohag

Orcid

-

Volume

24

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

16406

Issue Date

2020-07-01

Receive Date

2020-04-16

Publish Date

2020-07-01

Page Start

31

Page End

37

Print ISSN

1687-8353

Online ISSN

2682-4159

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https://smj.journals.ekb.eg/article_114906.html

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5

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Original Article

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785

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Journal

Publication Title

Sohag Medical Journal

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https://smj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Is blood transfusion safety will be a challenge during COVID-19 infection?

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Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023