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Transfusion Service

Oral Abstract - Infectious Diseases, Viruses

Saturday, October 19, 2024
8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  
Location: 342
CE: 0 CME (AMA Physician Credit) / 1 CE (Non-Physician Credit)

    Program Chair(s)

  • Ralph Vassallo, MD FACP

    EVP / Chief Medical & Scientific Officer
    Vitalant
    Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

    Disclosure(s): Cerus Corp.: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing); Fresenius Kabi: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing); Hemanext: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing)

  • Tobias Cohen, MD, PhD (he/him/his)

    Assistant Director of Transfusion Medicine and Cellular Biotherapies
    Weill Cornell Medicine
    New York, New York, United States

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

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Disclosure(s):
Ralph R. Vassallo, MD FACP: Cerus Corp.: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing); Fresenius Kabi: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing); Hemanext: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing)
Tobias Cohen, MD, PhD: No financial relationships to disclose

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe the impact of HEV minipool testing and donor lookbacks on blood safety in Switzerland since 2018
  • Relate prevalence to epidemiologic risk factors for HHV-8 seropositivity among blood donors in Uganda
  • Inform medical professionals about unchanged or decreasing US blood donor HIV, HBV, and HCV incidence / prevalence as risk factor deferral periods have shortened
  • Allay concerns that HIV+ donor kidneys may have different immune profiles or outcomes compared to HIV- kidneys in HIV+ recipients under a US program to expand transplant access

Presentations:

  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  
    A Haemovigilance Perspective on Routine HEV-RNA NAT Testing in Swiss Donors

    Presenting Author: Soraya Amar El-Dusouqui, MD, CMO (she/her/hers) – Swiss Transfusion SRC

  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  
    HHV-8 Seroprevalence Among Blood Donors in Uganda

    Presenting Author: Tait H. Huso, MD – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  
    HIV, HBV, and HCV Prevalence, Incidence, and Residual Risk in US Blood Donors, 2015-2023

    Presenting Author: Emilya Huseynova, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – The American Red Cross

  • 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM  
    Inflammatory Profile Among Kidney Donors with HIV and Without HIV to Recipients with HIV

    Presenting Author: Fatima Zaman, MBBS, MPH, MMSc (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University