Acute nosocomial HCV infection detected by NAT of a regular blood donor.

abstract：BACKGROUND:A highly sensitive dissociation-enhanced lanthanide fluoroimmunoassay (DELFIA) and flow cytometry techniques have previously been developed and employed to characterize soluble cellular prion protein (PrP(c)) expression in whole blood and separated components from healthy adult blood donors. No previous stud...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Fagge T,Barclay GR,Macgregor I,Head M,Ironside J,Turner M

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Surgical patients receive platelet concentrates (PCs) for a variety of indications. However, there is limited evidence for efficacy or dosing of PCs. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS:We performed a retrospective cohort study of surgical patients receiving isolated PC transfusion at a single academic tertiary medica...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Anders M,Rock P,Cartron A,Chow J,Henderson R,Martz D,Tanaka K,Mazzeffi M

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) are effective and safe for prophylaxis and treatment of thromboembolic phenomena. However, managing DOACs during bleeding emergencies is challenging. A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted on studies addressing efficacy and safety of the drugs used for reversal...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： da Luz LT,Marchand M,Nascimento B,Tien H,Nathens A,Shah P

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has been shown to be transmissible through blood components in rodent models, no human blood-to-blood transmission has been documented. If blood transmission were possible in humans, persons with hemophilia in the United States would be at higher risk of contracting C...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Evatt B,Austin H,Barnhart E,Schonberger L,Sharer L,Jones R,DeArmond S

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Screening of blood donations for antibodies against hepatitis B core antigen (anti-HBc) is an accepted method to prevent some transfusion-transmitted hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections. However, anti-HBc testing may result in donor loss due to unspecific results in the currently available anti-HBc tests. Alg...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Juhl D,Luhm J,Görg S,Ziemann M,Hennig H

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The way in which the donor history questionnaire is conducted plays a crucial role in the self-disclosure of behavioral risk factors for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection by prospective donors. The South African National Blood Service changed its policy on the process of donor assessment in May 20...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Mitchel J,Custer B,Kaidarova Z,Murphy EL,van den Berg K,Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study-III (REDS-III) South Africa Program.

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:When problems with compatibility beyond ABO and D arise, currently transfusion services search their inventories and perform time-consuming serologic testing to locate antigen-negative blood. These clinically important blood group antigens can be detected reliably by red cell genotyping, which is a technolog...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Flegel WA,Gottschall JL,Denomme GA

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the donor base, infectious disease prevalence, and donation loss at various blood donation sites will help maximize blood collection efforts and blood availability. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS:Using donation data collected at five US blood centers, the prevalence of HIV, HTLV, HBsAg, and HCV in f...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Wang B,Schreiber GB,Glynn SA,Nass CC,Smith JW,Higgins MJ,Hutching ST,Wright DJ,McEntire RL,Murphy EL,Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study.

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Treating hemorrhage with blood transfusions in subjects previously hemodiluted with different colloidal plasma expanders, using fresh autologous blood or blood that has been stored for 2 weeks, allows identifying the interaction between type of plasma expander and differences in blood storage. STUDY DESIGN ...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Hightower CM,Salazar Vázquez BY,Cabrales P,Tsai AG,Acharya SA,Intaglietta M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) seroprevalence ranges between less than 5% in Europe and North America and 50% to 70% in sub-Saharan Africa. Evidence of HHV-8 transfusion transmission is only indirect. We conducted a serologic (anti-HHV-8) and molecular (HHV-8 DNA) study of samples from paired donor-immunocompet...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Gobbini F,Owusu-Ofori S,Marcelin AG,Candotti D,Allain JP

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

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：:To study red cell transfusion practice in 3216 coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) cases in 11 hospitals in 1988, abstracted patient records were stratified by diagnosis related group (DRG) (that is, DRG 106, coronary artery bypass without catheterization, or DRG 107, coronary artery bypass with catheterization) and I...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Surgenor DM,Wallace EL,Churchill WH,Hao SH,Chapman RH,Collins JJ Jr

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The RhD blood group antigen is extremely polymorphic and the DEL phenotype represents one such class of polymorphisms. The DEL phenotype prevalent in East Asian populations arises from a synonymous substitution defined as RHD*1227A. However, initially, based on genomic and cDNA studies, the genetic basis for...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Lopez GH,Turner RM,McGowan EC,Schoeman EM,Scott SA,O'Brien H,Millard GM,Roulis EV,Allen AJ,Liew YW,Flower RL,Hyland CA

更新日期：2018-03-01 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:Although prior studies support the use of a hemoglobin (Hb) transfusion trigger of 7 to 8 g/dL for most hospitalized adults, there are few studies in pediatric populations. We therefore investigated transfusion practices and Hb triggers in hospitalized children. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS:We performed a histo...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Klaus SA,Frank SM,Salazar JH,Cooper S,Beard L,Abdullah F,Fackler JC,Heitmiller ES,Ness PM,Resar LM

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:National guidance recommends planning for future blood shortages, but few studies have evaluated how reduced demand could be achieved acutely. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS:A trained observer collected data concerning red blood cell (RBC) transfusion events outside the operating theater during 68 hours of blood ...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Joseph BG,Hendry C,Walsh TS

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Overproduction of beta-chemokines and genetic variations in chemokine receptors have been correlated with protection against infection by HIV-1 or slow progression to AIDS in infected individuals. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS:The protective role of chemokines and their receptors was evaluated in a group of seve...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Barretina J,Blanco J,Gutiérrez A,Puig L,Altisent C,Espanol T,Caragol I,Clotet B,Esté JA

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：:A solid-phase adherence method (SPAM) for ABO grouping and Rh typing of red cells (RBCs) has been developed. Adherence reactions were read spectrophotometrically and interpreted by a computer. The SPAM had a 99.6 percent correlation with conventional microplate agglutination methods for ABO grouping and Rh typing. The...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Sinor LT,Rachel JM,Beck ML,Bayer WL,Coenen WM,Plapp FV

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The operational and analytical performance of two automated triplex hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) nucleic acid test (NAT) systems were compared in four screening laboratories of the French Blood Service. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS:Two laboratories eva...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Assal A,Barlet V,Deschaseaux M,Dupont I,Gallian P,Guitton C,Morel P,David B,De Micco P

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of Yersinia enterocolitica in AS-1 red cells was investigated so as to study the organism's proliferation kinetics and to evaluate the effect of prestorage white cell (WBC) reduction on bacterial multiplication. Twenty-four 2-unit pools of ABO-compatible whole blood were prepared and inoculated with Y. ente...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Buchholz DH,AuBuchon JP,Snyder EL,Kandler R,Edberg S,Piscitelli V,Pickard C,Napychank P

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Delayed hemolysis mediated by long-term production of pre-existing recipient-derived antibodies directed against donor RBC antigens after allogenic BMT is an unusual complication of hematopoietic transplantation. CASE REPORT:A 26-year-old man with aplastic anemia had pre-existing alloantibodies to E and c. ...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Izumi N,Fuse I,Furukawa T,Uesugi Y,Tsuchiyama J,Toba K,Togashi K,Yamada K,Ohtake S,Saitoh Y,Yanagisawa N,Aizawa Y

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mild cases of hemolytic disease of the newborn were being studied when it was recognized that the propositi's red cells carried a novel antigen. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS:Serologic and genetic studies of a new low-incidence antigen, LOCR (International Society of Blood Transfusion series number 700.53), were...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Coghlan G,McCreary J,Underwood V,Zelinski T

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sickle cell disease (SCD) is associated with hematologic complications including delayed hemolytic transfusion reactions (DHTRs) and pregnancy-related morbidity and mortality. Hyperhemolysis syndrome (HS) is the most severe form of DHTR in patients with SCD, in which both transfused and native red blood cell...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Vasanthamohan L,Choo S,Marshall T,Symons YT,Matsui D,Eastabrook G,Solh Z

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Commercially available additive solutions (ASs) require 30% to 35% plasma for optimal storage of platelets (PLTs). PLTs suspended in M-sol, a bicarbonate-based experimental platelet additive solution (PAS), maintain in vitro PLT properties during storage with low levels of plasma (< or =5%). STUDY DESIGN AN...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Wagner SJ,Skripchenko A,Myrup A,Thompson-Montgomery D,Awatefe H,Moroff G

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-PP1Pk is found in the serum of individuals of phenotype p. Recurrent first trimester miscarriages have been reported in nearly 50 percent of mothers with the p phenotype. A comparative serologic study of three p phenotype mothers is reported. The proposita had three miscarriages while her two identical twin siste...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Cantin G,Lyonnais J

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The diagnosis of immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is a diagnosis of exclusion, as stated by international guidelines. Nevertheless, the assessment of platelet (PLT) antibodies has been reported as helpful for the diagnosis and the follow-up of ITP patients. PLT antibodies are detected by highly speciali...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Hézard N,Simon G,Macé C,Jallu V,Kaplan C,Nguyen P

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to ascertain the cause for seasonal variations of donor deferral. Deferred donors and monthly temperatures from 1981 to 1984 were tallied and analyzed. Temperatures were categorized at 10-degree intervals from 15 degrees F to 75 degrees F. Donors failing the hemoglobin screening then unde...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Lau P,Hansen M,Sererat M

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Qualification of a cord blood bank (CBB) is a complex process that includes evaluation of multiple aspects of donor screening and testing, processing, accreditation and approval by professional cell therapy groups, and results of received cord blood units. The University of Minnesota Medical Center Cell Ther...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Rabe F,Kadidlo D,Van Orsow L,McKenna D

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The impact of the spread of chikungunya virus (CHIKV) by autochthonous transmission and blood transfusion in nonendemic areas via travelers returning from CHIKV-affected locations is a concern. METHODS:We analyzed the risks of potential CHIKV importation and transfusion transmission from Thailand to Europe ...

journal_title：Transfusion

authors： Appassakij H,Khuntikij P,Silpapojakul K,Promwong C,Rujirojindakul P,Suddeaugrai O,Chullasara A

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00