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HbS Promotes Proinflammatory Cytokine Production in Sickle Cell Disease

Unlike patients with intravascular hemolysis without sickle cell disease (SCD) or those with β-thalassemia, patients with SCD have elevated baseline…

November 9, 2022

Transfusion Thresholds for Patients Receiving ECMO

Venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) can be used to help provide respiratory support to patients with severe acute respiratory distress…

November 2, 2022

ABO and Lewis Blood Groups Linked to Lower COVID-19 Susceptibility

Blood group O has been associated with decreased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection in several small studies.  In order to confirm…

October 26, 2022

Pluripotent Stem Cell Gene Editing Provides Rare RBC Screening Cells

Over 10 million of RBC units are transfused each year in the U.S. alone.  Alloimmunization and hemolytic transfusion reactions pose…

October 19, 2022

Individualized Behavior-Based MSM Donor Eligibility Would Increase Pool of Potential Donors

In order to reduce the risk of blood transfusion-associated HIV transmission during the window period between exposure and detectability among…

October 12, 2022

Sex-Matched Transfusions May Reduce Mortality

While plasma from female donors increases the risk of transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI), observational studies have had conflicting results…

October 6, 2022

Iron Repletion Does Not Effect Donor Well-Being or Red Cell Quality

Iron deficiency develops in over one third of regular, repeat blood donors.  In order to exam the physiological consequences of…

September 28, 2022

Prophylactic Tranexamic Acid Does Not Decrease Bleeding or Transfusions in Patients with Hematologic Malignancies

Patients with hematologic malignancies account for 43% of the 2 million platelet doses transfused in the U.S. each year.  Despite…

September 21, 2022

Donor Deferral Recommendations for HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis

In December 2021, the U.S. FDA approved injectable cabotegravir (Apretude) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV transmission.  PrEP, post-exposure…

September 14, 2022

SARS-CoV-2 RNA Frequently Found in Blood Donor Plasma is Not Infectious

Although no cases of SARS-CoV-2 transfusion-transmission have been reported worldwide, RNA is detected in 15% to 90% of patients with…

September 7, 2022

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