BACKGROUND Liver failure patients have traditionally been empirically transfused prior to invasive procedures. Blood transfusion is associated with immunologic and nonimmunologic reactions, increased risk of adverse outcomes and high costs. Scientific evidence supporting empirical transfusion is lacking, and the best approach for blood transfusion prior to invasive procedures in cirrhotic patie...

Blood transfusion has a well-documented clinical significance in several medical scenarios for instance severe anemia, massive blood loss caused by trauma, and major surgeries. Nevertheless, been associated with post-transfusion complications, such as mismatch reactions, transfusion-transmitted infections (TTIs).

1Department of Transfusion Medicine, NIH Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD, United States of America; 2Blood Bank, HEMORIO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 3American Red Cross, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America; 4Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America; 5Grifols, San Marcos, TX, United States of America; 6EFS Île-de-France, Créteil, France; 7Mount Sinai Hospital, Tor...

Iraq is unfortunately still delayed in the development of blood transfusion services. My tenure for over 18 months as head of the blood transfusion center in one of the major teaching hospitals in Baghdad, Iraq, Al-yarmouk Teaching Hospital, led me to this unpleasant conclusion. There is an absence of almost any type of scientific interest, e.g., no Iraqi blood banking or hematology journal and...

background: the most appropriate route of tranexamic acid administration is controversial. in the current study, we compared the efficacy of intravenous (iv) and topical intra-articular tranexamic acid in reducing blood loss and transfusion rate in patients who underwent primary total knee arthroplasty. methods: one hundred twenty 120 patients were scheduled to undergo primary total knee arthro...

results a total of 6095 participants (36.4% male and 65.6% female) with the mean age of 92 (7-95) and mean ± sd of 34.6 ± 17.3 years were included in this study. fifteen persons (0.24%) were detected as hcv-positive and the highest prevalence was seen in age ≤ 12 years old (1%). a significant association was only detected between blood transfusion and hcv infection; therefore, those persons wit...

background: many of the multiple traumatized patients who refer to the hospital need transfusion. transfusion-related acute lung injury (trali) is a serious clinical syndrome associated with the transfusion of plasma-containing blood components. in the article, we present a case of trali following transfusion of packed red blood cells case presentation: a 24 year old male referred to shahid beh...

haemovigilance is a system with standard program to cover the entire transfusion chain, monitor, evaluate and analyse the data to improve patients’ safety. we report the implemented haemovigilance system in hospitals and transfusion reactions (tr) in iran. methods and materials: this was a prospective descriptive study. the national reporting system for transfusion incidents was introduced in j...