VIDEO: Randomized Trial Demonstrates No Benefit of Fresh Red Cells for Transfusion Red blood cells, or RBCs, are routinely used in the transfusion of ill patients to deliver oxygen to tissues. Additive solutions,… October 29, 2012
Donor Red Cell Metabolites May Be Correlated with Post-transfusion RBC Survival Researchers who presented their work at the October AABB Conference in Boston, MA have shown that donor red blood cell… October 22, 2012
Researchers Co-transplant Marrow and Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Franconi Anemia Patient A team of researchers from Indiana University and Cook General Biotechnology has successfully co-transplanted bone marrow and marrow-derived mesenchymal stem/stromal… October 22, 2012
VIDEO: Platelet-Mediated Hemolytic Transfusion Reactions and Mitigation Strategies Platelet transfusion plays an important role in the treatment of hematologic cancers. Transfusion services do not always consider ABO donor-recipient plasma… October 15, 2012
Multicenter Study Finds No Correlation between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and XMRV A multicenter blinded case-control study has confirmed that chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is not associated with xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related… October 5, 2012
Female Sex is not an Independent Risk Factor for Red Blood Cell Alloimmunization Researchers from the Sanquin-LUMC in the Netherlands have concluded that female sex alone is not sufficient to recommend extended crossmatching… October 5, 2012
VIDEO: Human Herpesvirus 8 Seropositive Blood Transfusion Is Associated with Increased Mortality A recent study from Uganda demonstrated that transfusion with human herpesvirus 8 antibody-positive blood is associated with an increased risk… September 28, 2012
L-leucine May Play Therapeutic Role in Diamond-Blackfan Anemia Two recent studies provide further preclinical evidence that L-leucine may play an important role in treating Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA), and… September 21, 2012
VIDEO: Blood Donor Retention After Adverse Events Donating blood is critical to ensuring a sufficient blood supply. Due to the consistent demand for blood, it is important to… September 13, 2012
Systematic Review Finds Donations from Hemochromatosis Patients are Safe for Transfusion Hemochromatosis, primarily an inherited blood disorder characterized by iron overload, is treated with routine therapeutic phlebotomy. Although this therapy provides… September 7, 2012
