AMER Posted October 8, 2017 Share Posted October 8, 2017 Dear ALL , I want to know the difference between Intercept treatment and Mirasol treatment for Platelets and Plasma (Pathogen Inactivation) . Regards Amer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kate murphy Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Different photo-reactive chemicals. Intercept = amatosalen, Mirasol = riboflavin. Both activated by UV light to cross link DNA/RNA sections to inactivate proliferation of bugs/white cells. Lots of info with google... Maureen and Malcolm Needs 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eman Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Another important difference, at least in the US, is that INTERCEPT is approved/licensed for use with platelets and plasma but approval to use Mirasol in the U.S. is still pending (The Terumo website says Mirasol is "available in select markets". We went live with INTERCEPT for platelets earlier this year, been a generally positive experience. Downsides have been mostly related to collection targets (there are somewhat strict acceptance parameters for volume, platelet concentration and platelet content that required us to tweak our collection targets a fair bit) and the system isn't licensed for triple products, so we can only collect and process single and double collections. We had previously irradiated all of our platelets, so it was a nice benefit to no longer have to irradiate once we implemented INTERCEPT. Malcolm Needs and Maureen 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMER Posted October 24, 2017 Author Share Posted October 24, 2017 Thanks a lot all for your replay and your comments what about the technique and the time of processing also the cost ,what is the difference between all of theme ? Regards Amer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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