CompletedNot Applicable

Transfusion Infections Pediatric Prospective Study (TRIPPS)

600 participantsStarted 2001-04

Plain-language summary

To conduct a prospective study of pediatric transfusion recipients to determine the risk of transmitting various infectious agents by blood transfusion.

Who can participate

Age range6 Months – 21 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Pediatric cardiac, orthopedic, and neurosurgery patients * Trauma patients who are transfused * Sickle cell patients who are sporadically transfused * No allogeneic transfusion in the 6 weeks preceding the index transfusion * A pre-transfusion sample is available from the recipient * Life expectancy greater than 6 months * Residence in the continental US Exclusion Criteria: * History of allogeneic blood transfusion in the prior three months * Currently pregnant * Patients on dialysis * Patients with conditions causing significant immunosuppression

What they're measuring

Rates of transfusion-transmitted viruses

Timeframe: 6 months post-transfusion

Trial details

NCT IDNCT00029406

SponsorNaomi Luban

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeOBSERVATIONAL

Primary completion2013-04

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