Donor follow-up of influenza vaccine-related multiple viral enzyme immunoassay reactivity.

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Weak ABO variants may escape tests using unlicensed sera. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Prior to transfusion, ABO grouping was performed using an automated system and in-house diluted sera, and manual and bedside test techniques. Genotyping and sequencing were performed using standard methods. RESUL...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Pruss A,Heymann GA,Braun J,Kiesewetter HH,Salama A

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two preparations of fresh frozen plasma were studied. The plasma from CPDA-1 whole blood units was either frozen within 6 h (FFP-I) or 18-20 h (FFP-II) of phlebotomy. Average activity for factor VIII for FFP-I (n = 6) and FFP-II (n = 19) was 102% and 55%, respectively (p less than 0.01). Average activity for factor V ...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Kakaiya RM,Morse EE,Panek S

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most in vitro studies on microaggregate filters focus on the mechanical retention of microparticles. Data are based on bulk techniques such as differential dry weight and screen filtration pressure measurements or single-particle counting using resistance measurement (Coulter principle). Errors in measurements may res...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Eisert WG,Eckert G

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aggregates often appear during apheresis. Sometimes, these persist throughout storage, causing product wastage. This study assessed product quality of apheresis concentrates containing persistent aggregates (PA) and aimed to identify the factors that contribute to their formation. METHODS:Donation (n = 180)...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Feys HB,Coene J,Devloo R,Van Aelst B,Pottel H,Vandekerckhove P,Compernolle V

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND  Whole blood (WB) donation encompasses several periods during which some donors faint. Identification of factors associated with fainting during each period should guide intervention strategies. Reducing faint reactions may reduce donor injuries and disability. METHODS  Blood donation was divided into three...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Bravo M,Kamel H,Custer B,Tomasulo P

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of extended storage of pooled random platelets in SSP+ additive solution (MacoPharma). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Eight buffy coat-derived, pooled, leucoreduced platelet concentrates were prepared in 75% SSP+, 25% plasma using Fresenius/NPBI Com...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Hornsey VS,McColl K,Drummond O,McMillan L,Morrison A,Morrison L,MacGregor IR,Prowse CV

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A selected group of women previously immunized in pregnancy by the Rh(D) antigen were boosted with 0.5 ml of Rh(D)-positive frozen recovered red cells from an accredited donor panel. The response was prompt and sustained and increased the anti-D content by almost 10-fold. In spite of the reduced rate of clinical immun...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Gabra GS,Black M,Mitchell R

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocular chronic GVHD is efficaciously treated with autologous platelet-derived eye drops. We investigated the cytokine content of eye drops produced using a non-gelified lysate obtained from autologous platelet-rich plasma in six patients with ocular GVHD. In both the responding (n = 4) and the resistant (n = 2) patien...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Valentini CG,Nuzzolo ER,Orlando N,Metafuni E,Bianchi M,Chiusolo P,Zini G,Teofili L

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Mirasol Pathogen Reduction Technology System (PRT) for Plasma (CaridianBCT) is based on a riboflavin and UV light treatment process resulting in pathogen inactivation due to irreversible, photochemically induced damage of nucleic acids. This study evaluated the in vitro protein quality of plasma products...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Bihm DJ,Ettinger A,Buytaert-Hoefen KA,Hendrix BK,Maldonado-Codina G,Rock G,Giclas PC,Goodrich RP

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of gravitational force and three different plastic formulations of the storage bags on the quality of stored platelets by measuring the changes in platelet-associated immunoglobulin G (IgG) and two antigenic markers of the third component of human complement (C3), C3d and C3c. Pooled platel...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Szymanski IO,Odgren PR,Teno RA,Jacobson MS,Surgenor DM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-dose immune tolerance protocols use doses of factor VIII of less than 50 IU/kg/day to induce immune tolerance. Such protocols are chosen for a variety of reasons including cost, patient acceptability and ease of administration. Early published reports of low-dose protocols appeared in 1981, described small numbers...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Sultan Y

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus infectivity can be removed from human plasma used to prepare a gamma-globulin product by ion-exchange chromatography with commercially available resins. A pooled human plasma sample free of hepatitis markers was contaminated with 10,000 chimpanzee infectious doses of hepatitis B virus per milliliter ...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Zolton RP,Padvelskis JV,Kaplan PM

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spectrophotometric and gas-liquid chromatographic analyses on the carbohydrate moiety of tryptic erythrocyte glycopeptides from persons with Tn-syndrome reveal a selective lowering of the galactose and sialic acid content, the degree being dependent on the percentage of polyagglutinable cells. Alkaline borohydride spe...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Dahr W,Uhlenbruck G,Gunson HH,Van Der Hart M

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an ongoing debate whether platelet concentrates (PCs) prepared from either whole-blood donations or by plateletpheresis are superior. Usage of these two product types varies greatly between countries and individual institutions. Some use mainly apheresis PCs; others prefer pooled PCs which are produced from w...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Schrezenmeier H,Seifried E

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Ross River virus (RRV) is an enveloped, RNA alphavirus in the same antigenic group as chikungunya virus. Australia records an annual average of 5000 laboratory-confirmed RRV infections. While RRV is currently geographically restricted to the Western Pacific, the capacity of arboviruses for rap...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Seed CR,Hoad VC,Faddy HM,Kiely P,Keller AJ,Pink J

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:The Rh phenotypes hrB- and VS+ are both rare in Whites but more common in Blacks. The high-incidence antigen hrB is present on most red cells that are e+. The presence of VS on red cells is associated with an aberrant expression of e, often called eS. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Using conventional ...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Reid ME,Storry JR,Issitt PD,Combs MR,Beal CL,Mallory DA,Blancher A

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The international media attention to "bad blood" has fueled governmental action in countries around the world. Donor selection criteria continue to expand, focusing most recently on the possibility of exclusion due to intranasal cocaine use and, in the US, due to incarceration for more than 72 hours. As newer methods ...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Sazama K

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of H antigens on buccal epithelial cells (BEC) of secretors and non-secretors was measured by flow cytometry. H type 1 and H type 2 on BEC were detected with fluorescein-labelled Ulex europaeus lectin, and H type 2 was measured with mouse monoclonal antibody. Between 3.5 and 6 times more H antigen was detec...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Rahat A,Stewart J,Blackwell CC,Weir DM

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of CD4+ lymphocyte depletion, which is the main immunological feature in HIV-infected patients, is unclear. We investigated whether gp120-immunoglobulin-complement complexes on the surface of CD4+ cells might be involved in the elimination of CD4+ lymphocytes. The results obtained in 63 HIV-infected pati...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Daniel V,Süsal C,Prodeus AP,Weimer R,Zimmermann R,Huth-Kühne A,Opelz G

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:The study was designed to evaluate whether volume replacement following blood donation can prevent arterial hypotension in autologous blood donors with cardiovascular disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS:One hundred nineteen autologous blood donors with known cardiovascular disease were randomly al...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Kasper SM,Dahlmann H,Mellinghoff H,Ellering J,Baumann M,Buzello W

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood plasma and factor VIII concentrate have been fractionated by continuous free film electrophoresis in an apparatus which was designed to overcome the problems of overheating usually inherent in this technique. Results show that complete separation of plasma proteins is unlikely to be obtained by a single passage ...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Austen DE,Cartwright T,Dickerson CH

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:During platelet storage an array of deleterious changes occur, through mechanisms not fully understood, which impair platelet haemostasis. Transfused platelets should maintain the integrated networks of signalling pathways that regulate platelet activation and functionality. We hypothesized th...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Hernández-Hernández A,Sánchez-Bernal C,Rodríguez MC,Gómez FP,Llanillo M,Sánchez-Yagüe J

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Articles on the appropriateness of intention-to-treat (ITT) vs. as-treated (AT) analyses of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have highlighted issues relevant to drug trials, such as approaches suitable for 'explanatory' vs. 'pragmatic' RCTs. These considerations are less relevant to transfusion medicine RCTs, espec...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Vamvakas EC

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Factor VIII (FVIII) levels are used as a quality marker of fresh-frozen plasma (FFP); however, other clotting factors are not routinely measured. METHODS:We assessed additional haemostatic parameters and the dynamics of coagulation using Thrombelastography (TEG) and a thrombin generation test (TGT). FFP was...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Lawrie AS,Cardigan RA,Williamson LM,Machin SJ,Mackie IJ

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four commercial intravenous immunoglobulin G (IGIV) preparations, Sandoglobulin (Sandoz), Intraglobin (Biotest), Gammonativ (Kabivitrum) and Gammaogard (Kabivitrum) showed percent inhibition of Fc receptor-mediated phagocytosis of anti-Rh(D)-coated erythrocytes as follows: 45 +/- 14 SD, 41 +/- 23 SD, 35 +/- 14 SD, 25 ...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Sheth KV,al-Sedairy S,Lee J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Our post-thaw cell recovery rates differed substantially in interlaboratory comparisons of identical samples, potentially due to different temperatures during cell staining. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Viable CD34(+) cells and leucocyte (WBC) subtypes were quantified by multiparameter single-platfo...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Fritsch G,Frank N,Dmytrus J,Frech C,Pichler H,Witt V,Geyeregger R,Scharner D,Trbojevic D,Zipperer E,Printz D,Worel N

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:National guidelines for monitoring bacterial contamination of blood components were introduced in Germany in 1997. Between 1998 and 2002, numerous measures were implemented to prevent bacterial contamination. This study investigates their impact on contamination rates. MATERIALS AND METHODS:C...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Walther-Wenke G,Wirsing von König CH,Däubener W,Heiden M,Hoch J,Hornei B,Volkers P,Working Party on Bacteria Safety in Transfusion Medicine, Advisory Board of the German Ministry of Health, Berlin.

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts of seeds from 79 plant species were tested for agglutinating and lytic activity with the red cells of ten vertebrate species (man, monkey, rabbit, rat, goat, sheep, guinea pig, horse, fowl, dog). Of these extracts, 24 were hemagglutinating and 15 were hemolytic. The results suggest that some lectins can serve...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Bhalla V,Gaur V,Bhatia K

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quality management is an ongoing development resulting in consistency products and services and ever increasing customer satisfaction. The ultimum is Total Quality Management. Quality systems and quality management in transfusion medicine have gained considerable attention since the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic. Wher...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Smit-Sibinga CT

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Red cells of the McLeod phenotype in the Kell blood group system have an acanthocytic morphology. The membrane protein composition analyzed on sodium dodecyl-sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, the ATP level and the activities of a large number of intracellular enzymes appear to be normal. Membranes prepared f...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Tang LL,Redman CM,Williams D,Marsh WL

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00