Transfusion Risks / Hazards

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Date Published

Bacterial contamination in platelets: incremental improvements drive down but do not eliminate risk.

May 26, 2011

West Nile virus infection transmitted by granulocyte transfusion.

May 26, 2011

Identification of lipids that accumulate during the routine storage of prestorage leukoreduced red blood cells and cause acute lung injury.

May 26, 2011

Anaphylaxis from passive transfer of peanut allergen in a blood product.

May 19, 2011

Accumulation of bioactive lipids during storage of blood products is not cell but plasma derived and temperature dependent.

May 16, 2011

Storage time of transfused red blood cells and impact on clinical outcomes in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

May 13, 2011

Stored red blood cell viability is maintained after treatment with a second-generation S-303 pathogen inactivation process.

May 13, 2011

Rapid clearance of transfused murine red blood cells is associated with recipient cytokine storm and enhanced alloimmunogenicity.

May 13, 2011

Red blood cell storage is associated with length of stay and renal complications after cardiac surgery.

May 12, 2011

Impact of 13.56-MHz radiofrequency identification systems on the quality of stored red blood cells.

May 12, 2011

The Age of Blood Evaluation (ABLE) randomized controlled trial: study design.

May 6, 2011

Babesiosis in Lower Hudson Valley, New York, USA.

May 1, 2011

Large blood transfusion as a rare cause of ventricular fibrillation.

May 1, 2011

Eighty three cases of post transfusion HCV infection: a 10-year follow up. [Article in Chinese]

May 1, 2011

Purported deleterious effects of “old” versus “fresh” red blood cells: an updated meta-analysis.

May 1, 2011

Intraoperative transfusion of small amounts of blood heralds worse postoperative outcome in patients having noncardiac thoracic operations.

April 23, 2011

Blood transfusion and the lung: first do no harm?

April 18, 2011

Transfusion-associated hyperkalemia.

April 17, 2011

Age of red blood cells and mortality in the critically ill.

April 15, 2011

The immunological conflict in the transfusion-related acute lung injury or TRALI. [Article in French]

April 5, 2011