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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2006
Raymond P. Goodrich, Lakewood, CO (US);
Junzhi LI, Arvada, CO (US);
Raymond P. Goodrich, Lakewood, CO (US);
Junzhi Li, Arvada, CO (US);
CaridianBCT Biotechnologies, LLC, Lakewood, CO (US);
Abstract
This invention is directed toward a process for reducing transfusion related complications in a recipient of an allogeneic blood transfusion by adding to the blood to be transfused a photosensitizer comprising riboflavin, irradiating the blood and riboflavin with light, transfusing the irradiated blood into a recipient, and reducing a transfusion related complication by the recipient to cells in the donor blood. The invention is also directed towards a process for preventing rejection of a donor organ by a recipient comprising the steps of transfusing the recipient of the donor organ with treated platelets; and transplanting the donor organ into the recipient.