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Screening Blood Donors for Familial Hypercholesterolemia

Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) a genetic disorder which increases the risk of cardiovascular disease 100-fold and affects approximately 1 in 250…

May 29, 2019

New Criteria for Transfusion-Associated Circulatory Overload (TACO)

  Transfusion-associated circulatory overload (TACO) is one of the major causes of death associated with transfusions. TACO is characterized by…

May 21, 2019

New FDA Recommendations for Babesiosis Screening of Blood Donations

Babesiosis, caused by a tick-borne intra-erythrocytic parasite, is normally asymptomatic in humans but can cause severe and even deadly flu-like…

May 16, 2019

The BEST Criteria to Decide Whether or Not to Culture Suspected Blood Components

Life-threatening septic transfusion reactions (STR) can occur when blood components are contaminated with bacteria. Definitive diagnosis of STR, however, may…

May 8, 2019

Delayed Hemolytic Transfusion Reactions are Under Diagnosed in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease

Red blood cell transfusions are often used to treat patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), and these patients are at…

May 1, 2019

Severe Trauma Patients Should Receive Pre-hospital Blood Products

Severe trauma patients are at risk for hemorrhagic shock and death, and timely resuscitation is crucial for survival. The Prehospital…

April 24, 2019

CRISPR-Gene Editing Uses for Transfusion Medicine

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and Cas proteins evolved as part of the prokaryotes adaptive immune system. Cas…

April 18, 2019

Chagas Disease Screening for Family Members of Positive Blood Donors

Chagas disease (CD) is a zoonotic infection caused by blood sucking Trypanosoma cruzi—a parasite that infects over 6 million people…

April 10, 2019

Increased Exogenous Compounds in RBCs after 42 Days of Storage

Although morphological and biochemical storage lesions accumulate in stored red blood cells (RBCs), several recent randomized clinical trials have not…

April 3, 2019

ABO Blood Group Alters Platelet Binding to von Willebrand Factor

Since individuals with type O blood have a lower risk of myocardial infarction, researchers hypothesized that the ABO blood group…

March 27, 2019

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