AUTHOREA
Log in
Sign Up
Browse Preprints
LOG IN
SIGN UP
Essential Site Maintenance
: Authorea-powered sites will be updated circa 15:00-17:00 Eastern on Tuesday 5 November.
There should be no interruption to normal services, but please contact us at
[email protected]
in case you face any issues.
Yüksel Erkin
Public Documents
1
PHTHALATES RELEASED AFTER ERYTHROCYTE SUSPENSION: DO THEY POSE A RISK?
Edip Gonullu
and 6 more
February 17, 2021
It is commonly known that stored blood and blood products are heated before transfusion in order to prevent hypothermia, which leads to increased di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate content leaching into the blood and blood products and thereby causes greater conversion of di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate to mono (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate. However, there has been no study in the literature reporting on the amount of toxic phthalates in blood following the erythrocyte suspension transfused via warming. In this study, we aimed to investigate the di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate and mono (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate content in blood following the ES transfusions administered by di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate -containing and di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate -free infusion sets. The study included 30 patients that were randomly divided into 2 groups with 15 patients each: group I underwent erythrocyte suspension transfusion via di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate -containing infusion sets warmed with blood-fluid warmers and group II underwent erythrocyte suspension transfusion via di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate-free infusion sets warmed with blood-fluid warmers. Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate and mono (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate levels were measured both before and after transfusion. Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate-free infusion sets led to no increase in the phthalate content, whereas di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate-containing infusion sets significantly increased the di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate and mono (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate levels, where the di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate level increased almost four times (p=0.001). Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate-containing products lead to toxicity. Therefore, using di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate-free products may prevent toxicity in patients undergoing erythrocyte suspension transfusion.