Stability after thawing of RBCs frozen with the high- and low-glycerol method.

abstract：BACKGROUND:West Nile virus (WNV) infection is mostly asymptomatic (AS) but 20% of subjects report WNV fever and 1% of patients experience neurologic diseases with higher rates in elderly and immunosuppressed persons. With no treatment and no vaccine to prevent the development of symptomatic (S) infections, it is essent...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Kaidarova Z,Bravo MD,Kamel HT,Custer BS,Busch MP,Lanteri MC

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 27-year-old, gravida 3, para 2 woman experienced a delayed hemolytic transfusion reaction. She had anti-Dob in both serum and eluate 8 days after infusion of 6 units of Do(b+) red cells. No antibody had been detected prior to transfusion. By the 15th day after transfusion, there was no evidence of survival of red ce...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Moheng MC,McCarthy P,Pierce SR

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple method for preparing relatively pure C3c fragment from serum-reacted zymosan is described. Although hyperimmunization studies indicate contamination of the "C3c" product by C3d and immunoglobulin antigenic materials, these are present in such small amounts that they do not impair the effectiveness of the prod...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Chaplin H Jr,Hoffmann NL,Monroe MC

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preoperative autologous blood donation (PABD) has been used to reduce the need for allogeneic RBC transfusion, decreasing risk and conserving supply. A frozen PABD program for heart transplant patients was instituted at the Mayo Clinic in 1988, but participation has steadily declined. The aims of this study ...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Fontaine MJ,Winters JL,Moore SB,McGregor CG,Santrach PJ

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primers based on the nucleotide sequence of the virF gene in the pYV plasmid and the chromosomal ail gene were used in polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplifications to directly identify Yersinia enterocolitica in blood. Approximately 500 bacteria seeded into 100 microL of blood can be extracted and amplified by PCR t...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Feng P,Keasler SP,Hill WE

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Detection of viral nucleic acids might increase blood transfusion safety through the detection of recently infected blood donors during the preseroconversion window period. Individual screening is difficult to apply, because of technical and financial constraints. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS:A polymerase chain...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Yerly S,Pedrocchi M,Perrin L

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lyophilized factor VIII concentrates, because of their convenience, are the most commonly used products for providing antihemophilic factor to patients with hemophilia A. Heightened concerns about associated complications indicate that cryoprecipitate usage will increase in the immediate future. We present a protocol ...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Menitove JE,Spero JA,Richards WA,Lewis JH,Montgomery RR,Gill JC,Hasiba U,Wheeler DV,Sherwin JA,Russell-Vaskov S,Marlar RA,Maxwell NG,Aster RH

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Blood component irradiation is an accepted method of preventing transfusion-associated GVHD. Previous publications have largely focused on the technical aspects of the irradiation process itself, but relatively little attention has been paid to the details associated with the implementation of a blood irradi...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Patton GA,Skowronski MG

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Methods that detect a child's homozygosity by examination of allelic products are insensitive for diagnosing incest because, at a given locus, a homozygous state is expected with a frequency of only 0.25 when parents are first-degree relatives. Furthermore, these methods are not specific if the population co...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Wenk RE,Chiafari FA,Houtz T

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:QWALYS 2 is a fully automated system for ABO/D grouping, Rh phenotyping, K typing, and antibody screening (ABS). Its new erythrocyte-magnetized technology (EMT) is based on the use of magnetic nanoparticles and avoids centrifugation and washing steps. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS:Overall 499 blood samples were ...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Schoenfeld H,Bulling K,von Heymann C,Neuner B,Kalus U,Kiesewetter H,Pruss A

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The HCV lookback program was designed to trace and offer testing to recipients who received transfusion of blood components from donors subsequently found to be anti-HCV positive. Only approximately 20 percent of transfusable components entering lookback did result in a recipient obtaining testing through th...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors：

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tunneled central venous catheters with ports are increasingly used for therapeutic apheresis procedures. Vortex ports have been used as access for therapeutic apheresis procedures, but are not ideal for therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) procedures due to lower flow rates. We performed an in vitro experiment to compare...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： De Simone N,Sarode R

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of fresh red blood cells (RBCs) is recommended for critically ill patients and patients undergoing surgery, although there is no conclusive evidence that this is beneficial. In this follow-up study, the short-term and the long-term recovery of irradiated, leukoreduced RBCs transfused after either a s...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Luten M,Roerdinkholder-Stoelwinder B,Schaap NP,de Grip WJ,Bos HJ,Bosman GJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The RBC injury that occurs during collection of the first few milliliters of blood into the pH 5.0 ACD (NIH, Formula A) is referred to as the lesion of collection. The RBC injury was evaluated by labeling the ACD RBCs with (51)Cr and measuring the 24-hour posttransfusion survival. The effect of the acidifica...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Valeri CR,Pivacek LE,Cassidy GP,Ragno G

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a disease characterized by microangiopathic hemolytic anemia and thrombocytopenia, in addition to variable fever and neurologic and renal dysfunction, without an underlying cause. Recent advances in elucidating the pathophysiology of acquired TTP have led to new te...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Raval JS,Mazepa MA,Brecher ME,Park YA

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases are presented in which the presence of sodium caprylate dependent albumin auto-agglutinins in the patients' sera resulted in erroneous Rh-hr phenotyping of their erythrocytes. In the initial testing, the albumin control was negative in each case. Since one of the cases was an Rh0(D) negative individual who...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Reid ME,Ellisor SS,Frank BA

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nucleic acid testing (NAT) for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) was introduced for blood donation screening in the United States in 1999. This study analyzes temporal trends of these two infections since NAT introduction. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS:Donation data from 1999 to 2008...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Zou S,Dorsey KA,Notari EP,Foster GA,Krysztof DE,Musavi F,Dodd RY,Stramer SL

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood Centers of California, Inc. (BCC) is a consortium of 19 independent blood centers that collectively draw approximately 800,000 units of whole blood each year. Over the past several years, a committee of BCC, composed primarily of medical and nursing directors at member institutions, developed a Uniform Donor Med...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Kolins J,Silvergleid AJ

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the pandemic, testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) by real-time polymerase chain reaction is one of the pillars on which countermeasures are based. Factors limiting the output of laboratories interfere with the effectiveness of public health measures. Conserving reagent...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Schmidt M,Hoehl S,Berger A,Zeichhardt H,Hourfar K,Ciesek S,Seifried E

更新日期：2020-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies of bedside transfusion compatibility tests have shown high rates of erroneous transfusion decision, due to defective techniques and poor user performance. An experimental study was conducted to evaluate the error rate obtained with a new ready-to-use device (Vu-Test, Medigis), in comparison ...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Migeot V,Ingrand I,Salmi LR,Ingrand P

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft and hard-packed red blood cells in four different CPD anticoagulant-preservative solutions were stored with and without added glucose, adenine, and electrolytes. The hemoglobin-oxygen affinity of the red blood cell concentrates was tested over a six-week storage period. No single solution conferred better protect...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Wells RM,Hill RS,Woodfield DG

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The decision to transfuse red blood cells in surgical patients should be based on multiple clinical variables, rather than on isolated hemoglobin (Hb) measurements alone. An important but often unrecognized clinical variable is the postoperative downward drift in Hb concentration (Hb drift), but the etiology...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Grant MC,Whitman GJ,Savage WJ,Ness PM,Frank SM

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantity of anti-IgG bound at equilibrium to cell-bound anti-D failed to increase with enzymatic modification of intact red blood cells. This contrasts with results obtained by immunoelectronmicroscopy with unsealed red blood cell ghosts. Ghosts derived from enzyme-modified, anti-D-sensitized intact red blood cell...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Rearden A,Masouredis SP

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most patients who need peripheral blood stem cell transplantation do not have peripheral venous access that would allow apheresis for stem cell collection. Subclavian apheresis catheters have an unacceptably high incidence of thrombosis-related access failure. A technique has been developed for translumbar placement o...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Haire WD,Lieberman RP,Lund GB,Wieczorek BM,Armitage JO,Kessinger A

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:According to Landsteiner's law, alloantibodies are prevalent and autoantibodies are absent in the ABO blood group system. However, one study (Spalter et al., Blood 1999;93:4418-24) has suggested that low-affinity ABO autoantibodies, mitigated by anti-idiotypic immunoglobulins are also prevalent, while anothe...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Obukhova P,Korchagina E,Henry S,Bovin N

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A storage period of 42 days has been approved by the FDA for RBCs stored in NUTRICEL (AS-3). This study was undertaken to provide data to the FDA about the feasibility of salvaging AS-3 RBCs at the end of their storage period by rejuvenation and freezing, and to evaluate the effect of rejuvenation on indicat...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Lockwood WB,Hudgens RW,Szymanski IO,Teno RA,Gray AD

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is important to compare the incidence of bacterial contamination of components collected from the peripheral blood or bone marrow (BM), as well as of components processed with or without cell selection or depletion, and to evaluate the sequelae of such contamination. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS:Bacterial co...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Webb IJ,Coral FS,Andersen JW,Elias AD,Finberg RW,Nadler LM,Ritz J,Anderson KC

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Collections and transfusions of blood in the United States in 1994 were measured and compared with those in 1992. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS:Completed survey questionnaires were returned by all 147 regional blood centers, 1340 American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) member hospitals, and 523 non-AABB hospi...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Wallace EL,Churchill WH,Surgenor DM,Cho GS,McGurk S

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Iron overload is a common complication of patients with β-thalassemia major (TM). Despite the availability of three iron chelators, deferoxamine (DFO), deferiprone (DFP), and deferasirox (DFX), some patients fail to respond adequately to monotherapy with any of them. We report a case of TM who had refractory...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Voskaridou E,Komninaka V,Karavas A,Terpos E,Akianidis V,Christoulas D

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent retrospective studies suggest myelodysplastic syndromes (MDSs) are more common than previously recognized and patients who develop transfusional dependence may be at risk for increased comorbid complications. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS:A retrospective review was undertaken of Medicare claims focusing o...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Goldberg SL,Chen E,Sasane M,Paley C,Guo A,Laouri M

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00