No evidence of SARS-CoV-2 transfusion-transmission despite RNA detection in blood donors showing symptoms after donation.

Authors
Category Primary study
JournalBlood
Year 2020
The diagnosis of chronic mountain sickness (CMS) is based on a score including 7 clinical features (breathlessness, sleep disturbance, cyanosis, venous dilatation, paresthesia, headache, and tinnitus) in the setting of extreme erythrocytosis. Examining individuals in La Rinconada, Peru, the highest city in the world, the authors demonstrated that CMS at extreme altitude is not linked to elevation of hemoglobin, since CMS+ and CMS− individuals had similar levels of erythrocytosis.
Epistemonikos ID: 1761bc5900307de2e0615bc17641dbf4d185d00f
First added on: Sep 02, 2020