background it is important to differentiate whether isolated anti-hbc is due to false positive results or the prior exposure to hepatitis b virus, because individuals with false-positive anti-hbc can benefit from vaccination and their blood can be safely transfused. to distinguish between these two conditions, we evaluated the serologic response to hepatitis b vaccine. methods ninety subjects w...

Transfusion medicine represents one of the emerging branches last century. With discovery isoagglutinin, main proof has been made that blood group inheritance is encoded in genes which established theory four groups. Moreover, presence certain antibodies, later known as Rh factors, directly reflects ability to accept or reject group. Several methods detection factor have used transfusion helps ...

von Willebrand factor (vWF) is synthesized exclusively by endothelial cells and megakaryocytes, and stored in the intracellular granules or constitutively secreted into plasma. ABO blood group antigens are covalently associated with asparagine-linked sugar chains of plasma vWF. The effect of ABO-mismatched bone marrow transplantation (BMT) or blood stem cell transplantation (BSCT) on the expres...