Adverse Reactions to Blood ComponentsA Twelve-Year Retrospective StudyA Step towards Prevention [PDF]
National Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2022 Introduction: The transfusion of blood and blood components is a life-saving procedure in clinical practice. However, it is associated with risks that can range from trivial self-limited Allergic Reactions (AR) to life endangering anaphylactic or ...
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Improving detection rates of suspected acute transfusion reactions through active surveillance
Iraqi Journal of Hematology, 2021 BACKGROUND: Tracking transfusion reactions is essential to improve patient safety. Under-reporting of transfusion reactions was suspected in our institution.
Maha Abdulrazak Badawi +7 more
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Leucoreduction of blood components. an effective way to increase blood safety? [PDF]
, 2015 Over the past 30 years, it has been demonstrated that removal of white blood cells from blood components is effective in preventing some adverse reactions such as febrile non-haemolytic transfusion reactions, immunisation against human leucocyte antigens
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Appropriateness of red blood cell use in China in the last thirteen years: A systematic review
Heliyon, 2019 Objective: To determine both the rates of appropriate red blood cells (RBCs) use in China and where inappropriate use is particularly prevalent. Background: In China, obtaining the comprehensive picture in unnecessary RBCs transfusion is helpful for ...
Yujie Kong +8 more
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Health technology assessment of pathogen reduction technologies applied to plasma for clinical use [PDF]
, 2016 Although existing clinical evidence shows that the transfusion of blood components is becoming increasingly safe, the risk of transmission of known and unknown pathogens, new pathogens or re-emerging pathogens still persists.
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Pulmonary Transfusion Reactions [PDF]
Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy, 2008 In recent years, pulmonary transfusion reactions have gained increasing importance as serious adverse transfusion events.Review of the literature.Pulmonary transfusion reactions are not extremely rare and, according to hemovigilance data, important causes of transfusion-induced major morbidity and death.
Jürgen, Bux, Ulrich J H, Sachs
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Validation of a Polymerase Chain Reaction technique for Kidd blood group genotyping [PDF]
, 2015 The Kidd blood group antigens, Jkª and Jkᵇ , are two of the main surface markers which are found on the membrane of red blood cells. The determination of whether a donor or a recipient has the Jkª and/or the Jkᵇ antigens is crucially important to ...
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Zhongguo shuxue zazhi, 2022 Objective To analyze and evaluate the occurrence of adverse reactions to incompatible blood component transfusion in patients undergoing ABO-incompatible allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (ABO-incompatible allo-HSCT) in our hospital, and
Yuan TIAN +3 more
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Anaemia and blood transfusion in African children presenting to hospital with severe febrile illness [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Severe anaemia in children is a leading cause of hospital admission and a major cause of mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, yet there are limited published data on blood transfusion in this vulnerable group.
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The management of a blood donor bitten by a snake [PDF]
, 2017 The worldwide burden of snakebite is high and venomous snakes are found in many regions of the world and are a threat to public health. In Italy, for instance, viper bites are an infrequent but not negligible event.
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