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Old Sun Dec 16, 2012, 11:27 AM
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Given that the blood bank "regards leukoreduction as a safe method to decrease CMV transmission", the doctor is assuring you that Yashar will be protected by getting leukoreduced blood when CMV-negative blood isn't available.

I guess UCSF considers CMV-negative blood to be the slightly safer choice of the two, which is why they use it during transplant preparations as an added measure of safety. Perhaps they ration it, with that 30-day condition, due to limited supplies. When patients considering a possible transplant in the future don't know who the donor will be, they won't meet the third condition (having a donor known to be CMV-negative) either.
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