Parvovirus B19V infection can be a serious infection for hematology patients with underlying hemolysis or compromised erythropoiesis syndromes. Although case reports of B19V transmission by blood component transfusion (as contrasted to manufactured plasma derivatives) are rare, no studies have systematically determined a rate of transmission to recipients transfused with B19V DNA-positive compo...

Nowadays, there is a significant storage of donated blood in the world. According to recommendations WHO, adequate and reliable supply save can only by carried out on base regular voluntary non-paid donations. This particular category donations safest from point view prospect having infectious diseases that be transmitted through blood. Recrutitg retaining donors who make priority for service w...

blood transfusion centers are under considerable pressure to produce platelet concentrates with high quality and safety due to the short shelf life of 3-5 days as well as possible bacterial and viral contaminations. for a variety of reasons, many europeans have changed their methods of component production from whole blood using the north american standard platelet-rich plasma method to the buf...

The risk and importance of transfusion-transmitted hepatitis E virus (TT-HEV) infections by contaminated blood products is currently a controversial discussed topic in transfusion medicine. The infectious dose, in particular, remains an unknown quantity. In the present study, we illuminate and review this aspect seen from the viewpoint of a blood donation service with more than 2 years of exper...

CONTEXT Donations by minors (16- and 17-year-olds) now account for approximately 8% of the whole blood collected by the American Red Cross, but young age and first-time donation status are known to be independent risk factors for donation-related complications. OBJECTIVE To evaluate adverse reactions to allogeneic whole blood donation by 16- and 17-year-olds compared with older donors in Amer...

www.thelancet.com Vol 384 November 15, 2014 1729 In The Lancet, Patricia Hewitt and colleagues report the prevalence of hepatitis E virus (HEV) RNA in 225 000 blood donations from southeast England. Their study was based on HEV RNA detection by means of reverse transcriptase real-time PCR in minipools of 24 donations or fewer collected in a 1-year period (2012–13). They defi ned the rate of tra...

BACKGROUND The aims of the present study were to investigate the impact of three whole blood donations on endurance capacity and hematological parameters and to determine the duration to fully recover initial endurance capacity and hematological parameters after each donation. METHODS Twenty-four moderately trained subjects were randomly divided in a donation (n = 16) and a placebo (n = 8) gr...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of antibodies to the human T cell leukaemia/lymphoma viruses (HTLV-I and HTLV-II) in blood donors in north London in order to assess the economic impact and the logistic effects that routine screening would have on the blood supply. DESIGN All donations collected by the north London blood transfusion centre between January 1991 and June 1991 were screene...