The FDA Approves Cerus’s Intercept System for Platelets and Plasma The FDA recently approved the Cerus Corporation’s Intercept Blood System for platelets and plasma which has been used in Europe… January 7, 2015
Efficacy of High-Dose G-CSF for Granulocytopenic Patients is Inconclusive Results from the RING study, a randomized controlled trial examining the efficacy of granulocyte transfusion therapy in patients with neutropenia,… December 29, 2014
Liberal RBC Transfusions Do Not Increase Mortality It has been hypothesized that blood transfusions may lead to increased risk of subsequent infections, cancer, and possibly death. The… December 19, 2014
RhD Genotyping for Patients with a Weak D Phenotype The College of American Pathologists (CAP) Transfusion Medicine Resource Committee (TMRC) recently summarized their recommendations for patients with serologic weak… December 12, 2014
New Treatment Options for Treatment of Hereditary Angioedema Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is a rare genetic disorder that causes tissue swelling that can sometimes be life threatening. HAE is… November 26, 2014
Joint Statement to Change the Blood Donation Deferral Policy for MSM The Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Blood and Tissue Safety and Availability (ACBTSA) recommended changing the… November 21, 2014
Double-Unit Cord-Blood Transplants Are Not Advantageous Compared to Single-Unit Transplants For over 20 years, umbilical-cord blood has been used in approximately 30,000 hematopoietic stem cell transplants for patients with severe… November 7, 2014
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Seronegative and Leukoreduced Blood Transfusion Prevents Transmission of CMV in Very Low-Birth-Weight Infants Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections can cause serious complications and even death in very low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants. In a prospective multicenter study… October 24, 2014
Lower Transfusion Thresholds do not Harm Septic Shock Patients In an international, multicenter, randomized trial recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers evaluated 998 septic shock… October 10, 2014
AB Blood Group is Associated with Cognitive Impairment In a recent case-controlled study published in Neurology, researchers assessed the relationship between ABO blood group, factor VIII, and the… September 26, 2014
