Performance evaluation study of ID RHD XT, a new genotyping assay for the detection of high-prevalence RhD negative and weak D types.

abstract：:Albumin is obtainable from human blood plasma by an ion exchange chromatographic procedure in a yield of about 95% and a purity well above Pharmacopoeia requirements. Cryosupernatant, factor IX depleted plasma is precipitated with 12 and 25% w/v polyethylene glycol 4000. The second precipitate is dissolved to 8% w/v p...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Curling JM,Berglöf J,Lindquist LO,Eriksson S

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Variant RHD genes associated with the weak D phenotype can result in complete or partial D-epitope expression on the red cell. This study examines the genetic classification in Australian blood donors with a weak D phenotype and correlates RHD variants associated with the weak D phenotype agai...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： McGowan EC,Lopez GH,Knauth CM,Liew YW,Condon JA,Ramadi L,Parsons K,Turner EM,Flower RL,Hyland CA

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Intraoperative autologous blood recovery during radical retro pubic prostatectomy has the potential of contamination with tumour cells. Its safety is proved by similar survival rates between allogeneic and autologous transfusion to oncology patients without standardization. Silencing of the gen...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Poli M,Camargo A,Villa L,Moura R,Colella R,Deheinzelin D

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:GB virus C (GBV-C)/hepatitis G virus (HGV) is a recently recognized parenterally and sexually transmitted agent. The prevalence of GBV-C/HGV markers in Canadian blood donors has not been previously studied and was therefore determined. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Blood donors [identity unlinked (IU...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Giulivi A,Slinger R,Tepper M,Sher G,Scalia V,Kessler G,Gill P

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For some unknown reason humans may 'spontaneously' produce high amounts of neutralizing autoantibodies to a number of growth factors and cytokines. Reaching a certain high level the antibodies render the person cytokine deficient, mostly without overt clinical manifestations. The autoantibodies in question a...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Hansen MB,Galle P,Salomo M,Svenson M,Dickmeiss E,Gimsing P

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The granulocyte immunofluorescence test (GIFT) is valuable for detecting allogeneic and autologous granulocyte antibodies. However, the original tube technique (macro GIFT) requires 50-100 microliters of serum and 10(6) granulocytes with time-consuming washing steps which cause cell loss. We report a modification (mic...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Press C,Kline WE,Clay ME,McCullough J

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Anti-CD38 monoclonal antibodies, including daratumumab and isatuximab, often interfere with pretransfusion testing. Dithiothreitol (DTT) treatment of red blood cells (RBCs) negates this interference. However, the optimum DTT concentration and treatment time have not been well defined. Here, we...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Furumaki H,Takeshita A,Ohto H,Yamada C,Fujihara H,Ishizuka K,Shibata H,Shinba T,Nemoto N,Ino K,Ozawa A,Watanabe H,Kawabata K,Obata Y

更新日期：2020-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients on antiplatelet therapy, be it aspirin only, or aspirin in combination with oral adenosine diphosphate (ADP) receptor inhibitors like clopidogrel, prasugrel and ticagrelor, or the protease-activated receptor-1 inhibitor vorapaxar, may develop bleeding or need transient reversal of platelet blockade for acute ...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Gremmel T,Panzer S

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A competitive inhibition assay for functional fibronectin (Fn), based on ELISA technology, is described. The assay measures Fn's physiologic ability to bind to denatured collagen (gelatin). Affinity-purified Fn inhibits the binding of alkaline phosphatase coupled Fn to gelatin-coated wells of a microtiter plate in a c...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Doran JE,Callaway BD,Reese AC,Wynn JJ,Mansberger AR

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:There are no randomized trials comparing intravenous iron to RBC transfusion for the treatment of severe postpartum anaemia. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the feasibility of randomizing women with severe postpartum anaemia secondary to postpartum haemorrhage to RBC transfusion ...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Holm C,Thomsen LL,Norgaard A,Langhoff-Roos J

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) has been identified as human T lymphotropic virus type III (HTLV-III). Its distinguishing characteristics and putative receptor, the T4 molecule, are discussed. The Western Blot method has been applied to assess the presence of antibody to HTLV-III in ...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Pahwa S

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged storage of red blood cells (RBCs) at 4 degrees C results in decreased intracellular ATP levels with diminished posttransfusion survival. Meryman described a preservative medium, exceptional in its capacity to increase these intracellular levels during the first weeks of storage and later in maintaining adequ...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Mazor D,Dvilansky A,Meyerstein N

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Previous studies with p38MAPK inhibitors at room temperature demonstrated that they improve a large number of platelet storage parameters, but cannot substantially inhibit p38MAPK activation nor protect against widespread decrements in platelet quality parameters during 4 °C storage. In this s...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Wagner SJ,Skripchenko A,Seetharaman S,Kurtz J

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:A 2-year-old female with neuroblastoma needed In(b-), E- red blood cells (RBCs). No units were available at the blood centre (BC) nor in the rare donor programme member's inventories. BC's Immunohematology Reference Laboratory (IRL) and its marketing department concentrated on recruiting and t...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Gammon RR,Tyler L,Alvarez H,Benitez N,Nance S,Burton A,Delk A,Bright F,Sawh D,Forbes S

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether the attitudes, beliefs and motivations of blood donors evolve over time. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Using questionnaires a 7-year longitudinal study of a cohort of 126 donors was performed to gather their sociodemographic characteristics and their attitudes, beliefs and motivations relating ...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Fernández-Montoya A,López-Berrio A,Luna del Castillo JD

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 684 sera obtained from 20 hemophilia patients with AIDS/AIDS-related complex (ARC), 89 asymptomatic HIV+, 76 HIV- hemophilia patients and 151 healthy controls for antibodies against recombinant CD4 (rCD4). Twenty-two percent of AIDS/ARC patients, 10% of asymptomatic HIV+ patients, 17% of HIV-patients, and 1...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Daniel V,Weimer R,Zettlmeissl G,Langner K,Zimmermann R,Opelz G

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:Platelet concentrates (PC) prepared from pooled buffy coat (BC-PC) contain a variable number of leukocytes from different donors. We questioned whether storage of BC-PC can lead to a lymphocyte activation in the sense of a mixed lymphocyte reaction. BC-PC were prepared from four ABO-identical buffy coats and we undert...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Klüter H,Müller-Steinhardt M,Danzer S,Wilhelm D,Kirchner H

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:There are conflicting data regarding the therapeutic efficacy of platelets inactivated using amotosalen and ultraviolet A light. We have performed a meta-analysis to summarize the results of different randomized controlled trials (RCT). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Five RCTs reported through March 2...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Cid J,Escolar G,Lozano M

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An alternative to blood transfusion, based on oxygen-carrying solutions, has been sought for over a century. The present 'first-generation' haemoglobin-products were based on observations that crosslinking with, for example, glutaraldehyde, overcame subunit dissociation and renal toxicity. Experience with these soluti...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Winslow RM

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Am and Bm phenotypes are characterized by weak expression of the A or B antigens, respectively, by red blood cells with a normal expression by the saliva of secretors. Deletion of the regulatory element in the first intron of the ABO gene and disruption of the GATA motif in the element were found to be responsible...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Oda A,Isa K,Ogasawara K,Kameyama K,Okuda K,Hirashima M,Ishii H,Kimura K,Matsukura H,Hirayama F,Kawa K

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective analysis was conducted on 20 D(-) liver transplant (LT) recipients transfused with D(+) RBCs perioperatively and screened for RBC antibodies between 2 and 6 months later. None developed anti-D detectable by the indirect antiglobulin test. Two patients produced weak anti-D that reacted only with papain-...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Burin des Roziers N,Ibanez C,Samuel D,Francoz C,Idri S,François A,Mortelecque R,Bierling P,Pirenne F

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective study of 50 recipients of HBsAg-negative blood who had undergone cardiac surgery, 4 (8%) developed acute non-A, non-B hepatitis. The patients who developed hepatitis had received significantly more units of blood or blood products than the patients who had no hepatitis. The incubation period of the di...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Tur-Kaspa R,Shimon DV,Shalit M,Adler R,Shraga S,Manny N,Morag A,Eliakim M

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoblotting with human anti-Sc1 and anti-Sc2 locates the Sc1 and Sc2 antigens to an erythrocyte membrane glycoprotein of apparent Mr 60,000. The antigens are destroyed by pronase, and require intact disulphide bonds for expression. A proportion of the molecules carrying the Sc1 and Sc2 antigens are associated with ...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Spring FA,Herron R,Rowe G

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bivalent 7S subunits were obtained from 7 purified IgM human monoclonal anti-D antibodies with 33-63% of the total protein-retaining functional binding activity. The number of sites per red cell recognized by these subunits ranged between 9,400 and 28,500. The values are taken to indicate that a number of different ep...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Hughes-Jones NC,Gorick BD,Beale D

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using monoclonal antibodies to C3 it has been shown that the red blood cells of patients with cold haemagglutinin disease carry on their cells C3d,g (alpha-2D-globulin) rather than C3d. C3d,g seems to be the final product of in vivo C3 activation in fluid phase and on red cells. The cleavage of C3dg to C3d and C3g doe...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Lachmann PJ,Voak D,Oldroyd RG,Downie DM,Bevan PC

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia is usually attributable to HPA-la antibodies. We report a case of parental platelet antigen incompatibility associated with a severe neonatal thrombocytopenia secondary to alloimmunization to HPA-3a. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Platelet antibodies were detected ...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Boehlen F,Kaplan C,de Moerloose P

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To maximize the availability of platelet concentrates (PC) and minimize their outdate, competing criteria, a computer simulation model of platelet production and distribution was developed. Based on 2 years of actual platelet orders placed with a regional blood center, the simulation program generated daily platelet o...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Katz AJ,Carter CW,Saxton P,Blutt J,Kakaiya RM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:To demonstrate the application of leukocyte removal filters made of a new type of filter material - superfine glass fiber - for depleting leukocytes in SAGM red cell suspensions and preventing nonhemolytic transfusion reactions. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The extent of leukocyte depletion and red ...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Zou Y,Sun Q,Li A,Yao F,Hu Z,Li Z L,Ma W

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:B subgroups are rare and the genetic analysis reported to date has been limited. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Serological and molecular investigations were performed in blood from a B-subgroup donor. RESULTS:Red cells did not react with anti-B and anti-AB reagents. However, cells absorbed anti-B. R...

journal_title：Vox sanguinis

authors： Sousa N,Anicchino-Bizzacchi JM,Leite EM,Locatelli MF,Albuquerque D,Costa FF,Barjas-Castro ML

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00