Application of the OCR-B symbol in the data-processing system of the Finnish Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objectives of this study are to estimate the prevalence of iron deficiency (ID) among French whole-blood (WB) donors to identify factors associated with ID and to generate decision trees. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS:A prospective National multicentre study was performed on WB donors from March 11, to April...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Fillet AM,Martinaud C,Malard L,Le Cam S,Hejl C,Chenus F,Woimant G,Chueca M,Jacquot E,Besiers C,Morel P,Djoudi R,Garrabé E,Gross S

更新日期：2021-01-01 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：:A simple method, based on ethanol fractionation, for the preparation of highly purified human serum albumin with a higher yield than that of the conventional ethanol procedures is described. It consists of two purification steps, namely, precipitation of most of the other plasma proteins from a 3-fold diluted plasma w...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Hao Y

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BS II lectin, a second hemagglutinin isolated from Bandeiraea simplicifolia seeds, agglutinated the red cells from 11 patients manifesting the 'acquired B' antigen phenomenon. The results of serological studies indicate that this lectin has specificity for the type III polyagglutinable receptors rather than for the 'B...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Judd WJ,Beck ML,Hicklin BL,Iyer PN,Goldstein IJ

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recessively inherited ovalocytosis in coastal Melanesians is associated with widespread, but selective, depression of blood group antigens in homozygotes, who comprise about 15% of these populations. It is suggested that a membrane anomaly exists, and that the series of depressed determinants all depend, for their ful...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Booth PB,Serjeantson S,Woodfield DG,Amato D

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Autoantibodies to CD36, a platelet glycoprotein, have been found in patients with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, and in those with lupus-like anticoagulant with thrombotic complications. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Conventional hematologic and laboratory methods were used. The patient was a p...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Borzini P,Riva M,Nembri P,Rossi E,Pagliaro P,Vergani P,Greppi P,Tantardini P

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paraformaldehyde-fixed platelets from normal donors were used for detection of antibody to platelet by in vitro sensitization (indirect method) utilizing rabbit anti-human IgG heavy chain specific antibody-coated polyacrylamide gels (Immunobeads). The sensitized platelets formed rosettes with Immunobeads and the posit...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Salmassi S,Yokoyama MM,Maples JA,Matsui Y

更新日期：1980-11-01 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：:The results of the serological typing and the patterns of restriction fragment length polymorphisms for the detection of HLA-DR gene products are compared. The data shown demonstrate that the use of DNA typing gives a clearer definition of the HLA-DR antigens and that the HLA-DR polymorphism is greater than detected b...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Nagy M,Mayr WR,Menzel GR

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors that impact upon successful bone marrow transplantation leading to immunologic reconstitution in severe combined immune deficiency (SCID). Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, and in other lethal congenital immunodeficiencies are reviewed. Evidence is presented that graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) can be abrogated b...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： O'Reilly RJ,Brochstein J,Collins N,Keever C,Kapoor N,Kirkpatrick D,Kernan N,Dupont B,Burns J,Reisner Y

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pst I endonuclease fragment length polymorphism of the antithrombin III probe was studied in a French population. Among 25 subjects tested, 15 were found heterozygous at the Pst I site, so that this polymorphism might serve as a useful markers of antithrombin III gene in families with antithrombin III deficiency. ...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Le Paslier D,Rochu D,Lucotte G

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:White blood cell (WBC) fragments in platelet concentrates (PCs) may induce allo-immunization in the recipient. MATERIALS AND METHODS:As the level of WBC fragments can differ between PCs produced using different methods, we compared PCs prepared by using the buffy-coat method (BC-PCs) in plasm...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Dijkstra-Tiekstra MJ,van der Schoot CE,Pietersz RN,Reesink HW

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:A multicentre trial was set up to evaluate the performance of a new leucodepletion protocol. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Filtration at high haematocrit was started during collection of red blood cell (RBC) products by apheresis with Trima. SAG-M was added after filtration through the filter. Haemat...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Soli M,Blanco L,Riggert J,Martínez-Clavel A,Lucas C,Lunghi M,Belloni M,Wolf C,van Waeg G,Antoon M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The US blood safety vigilance system is composed of a network of interwoven programs, now organized under a formal structure, with the Assistant Secretary of Health and DHHS Blood Safety Committee bearing overall responsibility. It takes advantage of the breadth of expertise and close collaborative relationship of tra...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Busch M,Chamberland M,Epstein J,Kleinman S,Khabbaz R,Nemo G

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Refrigerated storage of red blood cells (RBCs) induces numerous changes that may target the cells for erythrophagocytosis following transfusion. The influence of storage upon the phagocytosis of unseparated and fractionated young and old stored RBCs was investigated using two in vitro quantita...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Veale MF,Healey G,Sparrow RL

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although hemovigilance is not a word used commonly in the United States, the concept of monitoring morbidity associated with blood transfusion is accepted widely. Currently, quality management focuses on error avoidance rather than error detection in both the "manufacturing" and "clinical" aspects of blood banking. "M...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Menitove JE

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:A patient with Guillain-Barré syndrome was successfully treated by plasma exchange (without any other therapy), and the relationship between changes in his peripheral blood lymphocyte subpopulations and the clinical improvement induced by plasma-pheresis was studied. At the recovery, the most interesting findings were...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Fiorini G,Bigi G,Paracchini ML,Marinig C,Gibelli A

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Europe, buffy-coat processing allows for the use of platelet additive solutions (PAS). These solutions, however, have long been questioned for their lack of glucose, a potentially essential nutrient for platelet storage. Using a novel, practical, two-part system for incorporation of glucose into an additi...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Gyongyossy-Issa MI,Zhang JG,Culibrk B,Hunter F,Levin E,Scammell K,Weiss S,Holmes DL,Holme S

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:To prove the feasibility of a semi-automated cross-match procedure using a commercially available solid-phase microplate test and standard laboratory equipment. MATERIAL AND METHODS:The new procedure was evaluated against the conventional spin tube technique and the gel centrifugation system....

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Ostendorf N,Niefhoff D,Cassens U,Sibrowski W

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of the glycoproteins haptoglobin and hemopexin in human plasma albumin (HPA) solutions were demonstrated to be responsible for the formation of polymers and aggregates during heat treatment for 10 h at 60 degrees C. Apart from haptoglobin and hemopexin three other contaminating proteins were identified as...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Jensen LB,Dam J,Teisner B

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biochemical status of whole blood stored in containers fabricated of ethylene ethylacrylate (EEA) film was monitored at several times during 4 weeks of storage at 4 degrees C. Fifteen biochemical indicators were studied to reflect on erythrocyte integrity, cellular metabolism, plasma protein stability, and microag...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Horowitz B,Rowe AW,Stryker MH,Van der Sande J,Waldman AA,Wong SC,Gass JD,Woods KR

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Following a 1994 study showing a high rate of transfusion-associated HIV, Kenya implemented WHO blood safety recommendations including: organizing the Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS), stringent blood donor selection, and universal screening with fourth-generation p24 antigen and HIV antibody ...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Basavaraju SV,Mwangi J,Nyamongo J,Zeh C,Kimani D,Shiraishi RW,Madoda R,Okonji JA,Sugut W,Ongwae S,Pitman JP,Marum LH

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 2000, Quality Assurance (QA) exercises for the detection and identification of granulocyte antibodies and DNA typing for human neutrophil antigens (HNA) have been distributed within the International Granulocyte Immunobiology Workshops, which are linked to International Society of Blood Transfusion. The exercise...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Lucas G,Porcelijn L,Fung YL,Green F,Reil A,Hopkins M,Schuller R,Green A,de Haas M,Bux J

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of testing RoHarr cells with panels of monoclonal anti-D suggest that the D antigen (referred to as DHar) encoded by the haplotype (D)c(e) Rh33 is a partial D antigen. IgM monoclonal anti-D are more efficient than IgG monoclonal anti-D in detecting DHar.DHar expresses some but not all of both epD5 and epD6...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Wallace M,Lomas-Francis C,Tippett P

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four Kp(a-b-) Japanese sisters, the product of a consanguineous mating, have otherwise normal Kell antigens. Kpc, a 'new' allele of Kpa and Kpb is the most probable background. ...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Yamaguchi H,Okubo Y,Seno T,Matsushita K,Daniels GL

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：:The proteins and sodium in human source blood plasma are segregated and concentrated on freezing, particularly in plasma that is frozen slowly in a large container. The temperature and the concentration gradients at the freezing front induce a convection in the liquid phase and thus play the primary role in the segreg...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Chang CE

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:In order to reduce the potential for transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) from an RNA-positive, anti-HCV-negative blood donation, the National Blood Service (NBS) introduced nucleic acid amplification technology (NAT) testing for HCV in England and Wales. The objective of this study was to ...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Grant PR,Sims CM,Krieg-Schneider F,Love EM,Eglin R,Tedder RS

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Photochemical treatment (PCT) of platelet concentrates using photosensitizers and ultraviolet light illumination reduces the proliferation potential of pathogens by damaging biomolecules. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The impact of riboflavin (RF-PRT)- and amotosalen (AS-PCT)-based pathogen inactivation on platelet...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Van Aelst B,Feys HB,Devloo R,Vanhoorelbeke K,Vandekerckhove P,Compernolle V

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00