[Post-transfusion hepatitis: can the problem be solved today? (author's transl)].
Among 333 patients followed-up after surgery involving a heart-lung machine between 1975 and 1976 seven (2.1%) fell ill with hepatitis. Only in two of them (0.6%) hepatitis B had occurred, caused by HBs-antigen positive blood which had had to be given for a vital indication without testing beforehand. This low rate of disease must now be considered preventable, as in 1975, the time of the transfusions, blood donor control had not reached present-day perfection due to the short period of use of radioimmuno-assay (RIA). In two patients (0.6%) non-B hepatitis following transfusion cannot be excluded although in one patient use of PPSB may be responsible for the disease. Among the 3 other hepatitis cases no aetiological connection between hepatitis and transfusion could be established on the grounds of the incubation period.
D005112:Extracorporeal Circulation; D006355:Heart-Lung Machine; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006514:Hepatitis B Surface Antigens / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D011863:Radioimmunoassay; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D065227:Transfusion Reaction
D006514:Hepatitis B Surface Antigens
Die posttransfusionelle Hepatitis B: ein heute lösbares Problem? Eine Retrospektivstudie nach Operationen mittels extrakorporaler Zirkulation.