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Finding Adolescents and Young Adults With Transfusion-Associated Hepatitis CLooking Forward to Looking Back
Maureen M. Jonas, MD
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2007;161(2):202-203.
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A small proportion of individuals with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are children. Although transmission from mothers infected with HCV is currently the primary way in which children are infected, receipt of blood or blood products prior to routine HCV testing had been a common method of acquisition. The first HCV testing was introduced into blood banks in 1990 and a more sensitive assay was introduced in 1992. Receipt of blood or blood products prior to 1992 is considered a risk factor for HCV infection that warrants testing. This recommendation has been made by both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention1 and the American Academy of Pediatrics.2
Children who have been multiply transfused with either blood or blood products prior to 1992, such as those with thalassemia3-4 or hemophilia,5 have infection rates ranging from 50% to 95%. Children with past transfusion exposure, such as . . . [Full Text of this Article] AUTHOR INFORMATION
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