background: plasmapheresis is a well-recognised method for harvestingplasma.  it was introduced in the 1950s and is currently employed worldwide.  this method has been in use in iran since 1979.   objective: to evaluate the efficacy of donor safety program used at the iranian blood transfusion organization.   methods: a comparison is made of the protein concentrations between the first-time and...

T he 3rd International Congress on Transfusion Medicine was organized by the High Institute for Research and Education in Transfusion Medicine (IRETM) and the Scientific Society of Blood Transfusion in Tehran, Iran on December 15–17, 2015. The World Health Organization (WHO), the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT), the French Blood Establishment (L’Etablissement Français du Sang;...

Background: Plasmapheresis is a well-recognised method for harvestingplasma.  It was introduced in the 1950s and is currently employed worldwide.  This method has been in use in Iran since 1979. Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of donor safety program used at the Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization. Methods: A comparison is made of the protein concentrations between the first-time and lon...

Background: Blood transfusion plays a great role in public health and the blood safety still has remained a main concern. HBV has been considered as one of the most prevalent blood borne infections. It is estimated that chronic HBV affects 350-400 million people worldwide. Comprehensive knowledge about HBV has high importance in Iran due to high number of blood dependent patients. Material ...

Hematological malignancies are the types of cancer that affect blood, bone marrow and lymph nodes. As these tissues are naturally connected through the immune system, a disease affecting one of them will often affect the others as well. The hematological malignancies include; Leukemia, Lymphoma, Multiple myeloma. Among them, leukemia is a serious malignancy that starts in blood tissues especial...

background and objective: patients with thalassemia major have an abnormality in hemoglobin synthesis and ineffective hematopoiesis and for this reason with respect to disease severity should receive one or more fresh blood unit every 15-30 days. since transfusion of blood products has been known as one of the routes of hiv infection, therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate the prevalen...

background: malaria is the most important transfusion-transmitted infection (tti) in worldwide after viral hepatitis and human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection. the main objective of the present study was to review and evaluate the transmission of malaria via blood transfusion in iran. methods : a literature search was done without time limitation in the electronic databases as follows: p...

background: reservation of blood leads to blood wastage if the blood is not transfused. therefore, in some centers only blood type and screen are evaluated. in this study, the efficacy of a blood crossmatch-to-transfusion ratio was measured and then compared with the standard levels. methods: this prospective study was conducted during one year in a university hospital. during this period, 398 ...

introduction: the prevalence of somatic chromosomal abnormalities in infertile male individuals has been reported to vary in different literatures. the aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of chromosomal aberrations among infertile men referred to the cytogenetic laboratory of iran blood transfusion organization research centre (ibto). materials and methods: chromosomal analysis w...