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.
Answer from: at Academic Institution
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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Thank you, Dr. @Diego R. Hijano! Will see you soon...
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