Abstract
A 35-year-old man with chronic renal failure on dialysis was found to have a positive result on routine hepatitis C (HCV) antibody screening on 3 February 2009. His last routine HCV antibody screening was 1 year ago (5 February 2008) and the result was negative. He had received many transfusions, having failed to respond to erythropoietin injections for anemia due to chronic renal failure. The renal consultant asks for the patient’s transfusions to be investigated as a possible source of HCV infection.
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Alter HJ, Esteban-Mur JI. Transfusion-transmitted hepatitis. In: Simon TL, Snyder EL, Stowell CP, Strauss RG, Solheim BG, Petrides M, editors. Rossi’s principles of transfusion medicine, 4th ed. vol. 4. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell; 2009. p. 718–45.
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Mijovic, A. (2012). Hepatitis in a Man on Hemodialysis. In: Transfusion Medicine. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2182-4_22
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