Efficacy, recovery, and safety of RBCs from autologous placental blood: clinical experience in 52 newborns.
Another optimistic article about the use of autologous placental blood in order to reduce exposure to allogeneic donor blood. A benefit was observed in almost 60% of neonates with a […]
Platelet transfusions in children: results of a randomized, prospective, crossover trial of plasma removal and a prospective audit of WBC reduction.
Disappointing and rather surprising results. The lower incidence of transfusion reactions (TR) in children is not surprising since the referred frequency of TR in adults (up to 37% from literature) […]
Analysis of 516 reaction reports after transfusion of blood cell components.
The article gives data on transfusion reactions that are not conclusive. There is no doubt about the reduction of non-hemolytic transfusion reactions in chronically transfused patients when using leukodepleted cellular […]
Usefulness of cord-blood harvesting for autologous transfusion in surgical newborns with antenatal diagnosis of congenital anomalies.
In connection with this study, one may wonder how often, in those children needing blood transfusions, the volume of cord blood collected will be sufficient to avoid allogeneic transfusions. Besides, […]