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Patients with Hematologic Cancers Have Lower Rates of Alloimmunization with RhD

Over 20% of RhD-negative non-oncology patients exposed to RhD-positive red blood cells (RBCs) become alloimmunized to the RhD antigen. In…

February 22, 2017

Zika-Positive Blood Donations Can Be Inactivated Using Pathogen Inactivation Technologies

Emerging infections, such as the Zika virus (ZIKV), continue to surface due to global travel, migration, and the spread of…

February 15, 2017

Transfusion Testing Strategies for Multiple Myeloma Patients Undergoing Anti-CD38 Therapy

Anti-CD38 therapies such as daratumumab have increased survival time for patients with multiple myeloma.  This novel therapy, however, interferes with…

February 10, 2017

Postpartum Hemorrhage and Predelivery Anemia are Risk Factors for Severe Postpartum Anemia after Cesarean Sections

Cesarean sections are one of the most common surgical operations. Postpartum anemia is a prevalent side-effect, and has been linked…

February 1, 2017

Platelet Counts in Blood Donors Deferred for Hemoglobin Are Variable

Repeat blood donors make up a significant proportion of the blood donor pool in the United States. Recent studies have…

January 25, 2017

Asymptomatic Blood Donors Have Zika Virus

As the Zika flavivirus (ZIKV) has spread throughout the Western Hemisphere, reports of severe side effects such as Guillain-Barre syndrome,…

January 19, 2017

Improving Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Collection for Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation

The City of Hope National Medical Center in California performs nearly 400 autologous stem cell transplants (ASCT) per year using…

January 11, 2017

KEL-Antigen Modulation is Important for Anti-KEL Immunoprophylaxis

Rh immunoglobulin therapy has been used for more than 60 years to prevent alloimmunization in Rh-negative pregnant women carrying an…

January 5, 2017

Red Cells Stored Longer than Five Weeks May be Harmful

AABB’s clinical practice guidelines recently stated that transfusion of fresh red blood cells (RBCs) compared to standard issue RBCs have…

December 21, 2016

Screening for Babesia microti Decreases the Risk of Transfusion-Transmitted Infections

Babesia microti is a tick-borne pathogen responsible for babesiosis—a malaria-like hemolytic disease. Currently, there is not a licensed screening test…

December 14, 2016

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