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Date Posted: 19:06:01 09/22/04 Wed
Author: cejay
Subject: Re: Someone please argue the case for homologous transfusions
In reply to: info 's message, "Re: Someone please argue the case for homologous transfusions" on 18:18:31 09/22/04 Wed

Okay that is an avenue I have not explored. Pretend you are the prosecutor. Argue your case. What are the advantages and why did he take this cheating avenue and not others.


>Everyone is assuming that the foreign blood is from
>another person. The more likly is that it was blood
>products, possibly bovine not human. These could come
>in multiple forms and uses. There have been many
>rumors of this in the peloton, sometimes involving
>former and current USPS riders




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>>If he is going to cheat why go this route.
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>>I don't understand the rational for a homologous
>>transfusion when autologous is so much safer and
>>undetectable. Hamilton has had the olympics on his
>>calender since way back. He had ample time to harvest
>>his own RBC and store them if he was going to go that
>>route.
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>>For arguments sake lets say he did not have enough
>>RBCs in storage and needed more. Hamilton dropped out
>>of the Tour on July 19th and raced the Olympics on the
>>14th and 18th of August. His body was still strong
>>when he left the TdF it was his back that gave out.
>>So lets assume he could harvest his own blood on the
>>20th or 21st. The cells get centrifuged and the
>>plasma returned to the body. He now has three and a
>>half weeks to recharge his blood cell count. Is that
>>enough time? How much is needs to be taken to get
>>the blood from 42% to 49% hematocrit. I just can't
>>see why he went the homologous transfusion route
>>versus just starting an EPO cycle to boost his blood
>>count.
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>>Anyone have better medical knowledge that can argue
>>the case of why he would have chosen this method.

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