New AABB Guidelines for Red Blood Cell Storage and Transfusion Thresholds The AABB has recently published updated guidelines for red blood cell (RBC) transfusion thresholds and the optimal length of storage…. October 13, 2016
Prothrombin Complex Concentrates are Superior to Fresh Frozen Plasma for Urgent Warfarin Reversal Although warfarin is a common anticoagulant used to prevent blood clots and strokes, it is associated with major bleeding episodes… October 6, 2016
New Techniques Identify Oxidative Lesions on Stored RBCs Stored red blood cells (RBCs) undergo morphologic and biochemical changes with time. In a recently published study in Blood, researchers… September 28, 2016
Low Rate of HIV Testing Among High-Risk Blood Donors in Brazil As part of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study (REDS-II), researchers analyzed 341 HIV-positive blood… September 20, 2016
Dithiothreitol (DTT)-based Method Validated for Blood Compatibility Testing in Patients Taking Daratumumab Daratumumab (DARA), an immunoglobulin that targets CD38 on myeloma cells, was recently approved by the U.S. FDA. DARA, however, also… September 14, 2016
Cord Blood Transplants Beneficial When Matched Donors Cannot Be Found The majority of patients in need of allogeneic hematopoietic cell-transplants do not have HLA-matched donors available. Researchers recently performed a… September 14, 2016
Surveys Report Fewer Blood Collections and Transfusions in 2013 The AABB Blood Collection, Utilization, and Patient Blood Management Survey and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National… September 7, 2016
Combinations of Monoclonal Antibodies Efficiently Suppress Red Blood Cell Alloimmunization in Mice Polyclonal anti-RhD antibodies are used to prevent hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn. These antibodies are currently collected from… August 31, 2016
Mandatory Blood Screening to Prevent Transfusion-Transmission of Zika Virus Two platelet transfusion recipients acquired the Zika virus from their transfusions, as recently reported in The New England Journal of… August 29, 2016
New Drug for Leishmaniasis, Chagas Disease and Sleeping Sickness Leishmaniasis, Chagas disease and sleeping sickness are transfusion-transmitted diseases. These diseases affect more than 20 million people annually in Latin… August 18, 2016
