“Donor caffeine consumption, a common dietary exposure for up to 75 percent of Americans, emerges as a modifiable behavioral factor potentially influencing RBC storage quality and transfusion outcomes ...

Acute immune intravascular hemolysis can also represent a delayed hemolytic transfusion reaction. This is a consideration in this case, because the patient received 2 units of red cells 2 weeks before ...

A new study from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus has found that caffeine, the world's most consumed psychoactive substances, may impair the quality of donated blood and reduce the ...

Transfusion decisions should incorporate the clinical context rather than just the hemoglobin concentration. HealthDay News — A liberal red blood cell (RBC) transfusion strategy is suggested for ...

More than 100 thalassemia patients at Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan (LNJP) Hospital have not been receiving leukodepleted ...

I read that in the 1700s, animal blood was transfused into humans to cure syphilis. Is this true? — T.U. ANSWER: The story is a bit more complicated. Transfusion from animals into humans was certainly ...

A University of Oklahoma study published Sept. 3 in JAMA Surgery reports that acute normovolemic hemodilution (ANH) – a blood-saving method in which a patient’s blood is collected before going on ...

Physical/chemical causes. These causes of hemolysis are most often secondary to improper handling of blood products. Reasons include inadvertent heating or freezing with subsequent thawing of the red ...