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Blood Doping
Aka: Blood Doping, Blood Boosting
- Techniques
- Blood Doping (Blood Boosting)
- pRBC Units donated well before an event
- pRBC transfused immediately before an event
- Recombinent Erythropoietin (rEPO)
- Stimulates red cell mass
- Very expensive
- Same effect as Blood Doping
- Adverse Effects
- Hypercoagulation risk may be fatal
- Deep Vein Thrombosis
- Pulmonary Embolism
- Cerebrovascular Accident
- Myocardial Infarction
- Eighteen deaths by European Cyclists who blood doped
- Transfusion Reaction
- Bloodbourne infection (including HIV)
- Efficacy
- Increases performance in endurance sports (e.g. long-distance cycling)
- Detection
- Not detected, but banned by olympic committee 1984