Transfusion and Immunosuppression: An Update

Subhashish Das

Professor of Pathology, Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College, Tamaka, Kolar, Karnataka, India

Subhashish Das, Department of Pathology, Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College, Tamaka, Kolar-563101, Karnataka, India.

Keywords: Blood Transfusion; Immunosuppression; CMV; HBV; Cancer

Abstract

Major advances in the treatment of cancer have resulted in improved survival rates. However, serious infections continue to be a major source of morbidity and mortality in the immunocompromised patients these are patients who have one or more defects in their natural defense mechanism that put them at an increased risk of developing infections. Not only the infections risk is greater in these people, but also once they get infection it is often severe, rapidly progressive and life threatening.

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