Leukocyte reduced does that mean cmv negative

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hi dear friends of BBTalk

i am back, being away for a while for not receiving Pathtalk for a few months. Now i have it but somehow they are sent to " spam" .It's ok, i just go from there.

Thanks for the clarification of " CMV negative and leukopoor products"

Just want to mention a little bit about CMV neg at our facility:

- when being asked "is the unit CMV neg, " our answer is : the unit is leukopoor, CMV neg is taken care.All units are leukopoor here.

- our blood supply (blood and platelets) has some units that are CMV neg , we never order or request CMV neg

-for oncology patients, we use irradiated products if the dr orders

Also thanks to Cliff for helping me to restore Pathtalk

Here in Sweden the understanding is that leukocyte filtration (ie, less than 5x10⁶ leukocytes per component) equals a CMV functionally negative product, so there is no need to select CMV negative products.

Irradiation is performed when we're dealing with stem cell transplanted patients, since even with those tiny amounts of leukocytes in leukodepleted components they can still develop a Graft-vs-Host like reaction.