Higher Donor Body Mass Index is Associated with Increased RBC Hemolysis Red blood cell (RBC) donor characteristics, collection, processing, storage, and transfusion have been well studied, but how the factors interact… March 3, 2021
Randomized Noninferiority Trial of Restrictive Transfusion Thresholds for Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction Restrictive transfusion thresholds have been found to be beneficial for most patients. Anemia, however, is associated with poor outcomes in… February 24, 2021
Higher Hemoglobin Transfusion Thresholds Do Not Improve Outcomes in Preterm Infants Within the last decade, lower hemoglobin transfusion thresholds have been found to be safe and effective for most patient subpopulations. … January 5, 2021
RBC Transfusions Reduce Fatigability in Hospitalized Patients with Anemia In order to determine if red blood cell (RBC) transfusions improve quality of life for hospitalized patients with anemia, researchers… December 1, 2020
Restrictive Transfusion Strategies Safe for Extremely Low Birth-Weight Infants Most extremely low birth-weight (ELBW) infants develop anemia, which can result in severe brain injury and/or impaired oxygen supply to… August 19, 2020
Positive Coombs Tests and RBC Transfusions in Patients with COVID-19 During the early outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in Italy, medical doctors and researchers observed a high frequency of positive direct antiglobulin… August 12, 2020
Practical Guidance for Blood Supply and Use during the COVID-19 Pandemic Researchers in Europe and Canada reviewed more than 9,000 publications about COVID-19 and identified 414 papers relevant to blood collections,… July 15, 2020
Erythropoietin Does Not Provide Neuroprotection in Preterm Infants In addition to stimulating red blood cell production, erythropoietin is a trophic factor in fetal brain development. Meta-analysis of four… January 22, 2020
New Drug, Enasidenib, Enhances Erythroid Differentiation and Lessens Anemia Enaisdenib inhibits isocitrate dehygrogenase 2 (IDH2)-mutant activity and was approved by the FDA in 2017 for patients with refractory or… January 15, 2020
Delayed Umbilical Cord for Cesarean Deliveries Does Not Increase Maternal Blood Loss A 30 to 60 second delay in umbilical cord clamping for full-term and preterm neonates improves neonatal hemoglobin levels 24-48… November 26, 2019
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