Benefits and Harms of Whole Blood versus Component Blood Transfusions Remain Unclear Transfusions may be in the form of whole blood (WB) or blood components (BC). Blood components include red blood cells,… November 9, 2021
Red Blood Cells May Act as Immune Sentinels Anucleated red blood cells (RBCs) are essential for delivery of oxygen throughout the body but have been considered immunologically inert. … November 1, 2021
Pathogen Reduced Platelets are Non-Inferior to Conventional Platelets for Hematology Patients Results for the PIPER Phase 4 study of psoralen-UVA pathogen reduced platelets (PRPC) (Cerus Corporation) following transfusion were recently presented… October 28, 2021
Cold Storage Affects Platelet Function and Glycoprotein VI Levels Maintaining an adequate supply of platelets is laborious and costly since they can only be stored for 5 to 7… October 20, 2021
RBC Transfusions and Alloimmunization in Patients Taking Daratumumab Daratumumab (Dara), an anti-CD38 monoclonal antibody, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2015 for use… October 12, 2021
Fear and Anxiety Associated with Attrition of First-Time Donors In order to tease apart whether fear and anxiety in first-time blood donors actually led to fewer return donations, researchers… October 6, 2021
RBC and Plasma Transfusions Decreased in the U.S. (2015-2018) Blood transfusions are one of the most common medical procedures in hospitalized patients, and robust data from randomized clinical trials… September 28, 2021
REDS-III Study Highlights Need for Pediatric Oncology Transfusion Guidelines Pediatric hematology/oncology patients receive a significant proportion of pediatric transfusions. Data, however, are limited guiding clinical decisions for transfusions… September 22, 2021
Transfusion Outcomes in Very-Low-Birth Weight Infants Associated with Donor Sex and Age Blood donor characteristics may affect transfusion outcomes, but data are conflicting. In order to investigate the association of donor sex… September 15, 2021
SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence in Blood Donors The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) along with researchers from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and blood… September 8, 2021
