Would you use autologous hematopoietic stem cells collected from a HR neuroblastoma patient found to be COVID positive after harvest?
Both the patient's nasopharyngeal swab and stem cells themselves resulted COVID positive post-harvesting.
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Pediatric Infectious Disease · St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
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While the safest approach might be to try to do another collection once the patient has recovered, that may not be feasible or lead to delays in the transplant. I would use this product since transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is not systematic and there is no evidence of SARS-CoV-2 transfusion transmission...
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