AIDS, Blood Transfusions, and Directed Donations

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To the Editor: Public and medical hysteria about the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has contributed to an increasing reluctance on the part of patients to receive homologous (blood-bank donor) blood. This reluctance has led to increasing interest in autologous transfusions and in the process of "directed" donations, in which the patient directly solicits donations from family or friends.Patients and, occasionally, their physicians think that directed donations must be safer than regular blood-bank donor blood in terms of disease transmission. After all, one expects that friends or family members would never harbor diseases or belong to a highrisk group and . . .

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