Restrictive Transfusions Threshold Safe for Cardiac Surgery Patients While a restrictive transfusion strategy has been advocated for most patients, a restrictive approach for cardiac surgery patients may put… November 22, 2017
Genetic Variation in the Fc-gamma Receptor Gene is Associated with Protection against RBC Alloimmunization Genetic variation in the Fc-ɣ receptor gene has been shown to be associated with some auto- and alloimmune diseases. Researchers… November 16, 2017
Potential Screening for Cytomegalovirus among Cord Blood Donors Infection with cytomegalovirus (CMV) can cause severe complications for hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients. In addition to screening for maternal… November 9, 2017
Rapid Transfusions after Combat Causalities Improves Chances of Survival Since bleeding is a major cause of death in combat causalities and civilian trauma cases, researchers recently examined the association… November 1, 2017
Trying to Decipher Relationship between Previously Pregnant Donors and RBC Transfusion-related Mortality Although blood from previously pregnant female donors has been shown to be associated with transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI), the… October 25, 2017
US Blood Supply at Risk—Blood Collection Agencies under Financial Stress Blood collection centers in the United States have been providing a safe, reliable, and stable source of blood to hospitals… October 18, 2017
Hispanic Blood Donors at Increased Risk of Low Iron Levels Age, sex and donation frequency are known risk factors for low iron levels in blood donors. To identify other risk… October 11, 2017
Red Blood Cells Stored for More Than 35 Days are Safe One of the major controversies in transfusion medicine has been whether red blood cell (RBC) storage lesions result in increased… October 11, 2017
Cost Effectiveness of Platelets Treated with Pathogen Reduction Compared to Secondary Testing In March of 2016 the FDA introduced draft guidelines recommending additional precautions to prevent bacterial contamination in platelets. Since both… October 4, 2017
Frequent Donors Give More Blood but Are More Likely to be Iron Deficient The first randomized trial assessing donation-intervals recently published in The Lancet will help to clarify safe whole blood donation frequencies… September 27, 2017
