Affiliation:
1. Senior Resident,Department of hematology and transfusion medicine, Government Medical college Srinagar
2. Professor and head Department of Immunohematology and Transfusion Medicine, Govt. Medical College Jammu.
3. Senior Resident,Department of immunohematology and transfusion medicine,AIIMS New Delhi.
4. Lecturer,Department of Immunohematology and Transfusion Medicine, Govt. Medical College Jammu.
Abstract
Plateletpheresis is used to obtain platelets from volunteer donors, patient's family members,or donor with HLA or
platelet antigen compatible phenotypes. To analyze the adverse reactions due to single donor platelet Aim: pheresis.
Materials and Methods:This was a prospective observational study conducted over a period of one year from
September 2018 to August 2019 in the department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion Medicine, GMC Jammu.
A total of 157 plateletpheresis procedures were performed after taking informed and written consent from the donor.
The donors were selected as per the guidelines of Director General of Health Services (DGHS). Single arm procedure
was used.All the procedures were performed on Fresenius kabiCom.tec op 5/07.08 by intermittent flow centrifugation
(IFC). The adverse events (AE's) were classified as donor related and kit/equipment related. A total Results: of 10 AE's
were noted of which 6 (60%) events were associated with donors and 4 (40%) events were owned to fault in the
kit/equipment.Donor related 6 AE's include citrate toxicity[n=3(50%)], vasovagal reactions [n=2(33.33%)] and
hematoma [n=1(16.67%)].Machine related 4 AE's include leakage in the kit[n=3(75%)] and interface error [n=1(25%)].
Discussion and Conclusion: Our study showed (n=6)3.82% donor reactions and equipment related (n=4) 2.54%
reactions. Apheresis donations performed on cell separators are safe. The percentage of reactions in our study was
6.36% and no serious adverse reaction was noted .But precautions and close monitoring helps to reduce such mild forms
of reactions.Increasing demand of platelet transfusions for patients had led to accelerated use of Apheresis, cause of
higher yield of platelets obtained from single donor.
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