Important study showing that more than one third of donors show no symptoms although having viremia and transmitting West Nile virus. Therefore, nucleic-based assays for West-Nile Virus are necessary in […]
Very important is the conclusion that mistransfusions are the main risk of blood transfusions. Means of limiting these serious hazards should therefore have priority in blood safety. – Volker Kretschmer
Discussion of very recent literature, calculation of current risk of transfusion transmitted viral infections after introduction of NAT-HCV and NAT-HIV. Determination of cost/benefit of introduction of NAT. Conclusive statement that […]
In this observational study, the authors report their experience with the use of acute normovolemic hemodilution in cardiac surgery patients. – Philippe Van der Linden This article convincingly shows that […]
This case control cohort study reports that the efficacy of acute normovolemic hemodilution as a blood conservation technique appears limited due to the usually poor clinical status of patients undergoing […]
This is a very important paper in two ways. First, it highlights ongoing activation of hemostasis in the postoperative period as demonstrated by the control group. The scale of Figure […]
The authors studied a database of 1,915 patients who underwent isolated first time myocardial revascularization between 1994 and 1997 and found that blood transfusions during or after coronary artery bypass […]
Interesting, but very rare adverse reaction that needs not be treated as long as no bacterial infection complicates the situation. Then antibiotics are the therapy of choice, and not granulocyte […]
The authors from Taiwan state that they used “Ferrum Hausmann, a ferric polymaltose complex.” Under the same name (Ferrum Hausmann), iron saccharate (identical to iron sucrose) has been licensed in […]
The article demonstrates that the decision towards autologous blood donation (ABD) does not, in the majority of cases, depend on the hemoglobin values but on additional health risk factors. There […]
The results of this study are rather surprising. The control group receiving FFP required significantly more red cell concentrates (RBCs). One of the reasons explaining this could be that the […]
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