April 15, 2003 -- Leukoreduction may lower complications of blood transfusion for the recipient, according to two reports published in the April 16 issue of The Journal of the American Medical ...

CMV continues to be associated with post transplantation morbidity and mortality. Drugs used for prophylaxis and treatment of CMV infection can cause pancytopenia and impair renal function, adding to ...

Filtering white cells from donor blood before a transfusion is much safer for patients and long overdue as a national standard for all surgical procedures, according to researchers. Filtering white ...

A 6-year-old boy with acute lymphoblastic leukemia had an anaphylactic reaction while receiving a leukoreduced pooled buffy-coat product with ABO-identical platelets. During transfusion, rash, ...

March 14, 2011 — The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists have updated their 2007 blood conservation clinical practice guidelines and have published their ...

Premature infants, especially those born with very low-birth-weight, are particularly vulnerable to cytomegalovirus infection because of their immature immune systems. Maternal breast milk is a ...

A new study suggests that blood transfusions for hospitalized cardiac patients should be a last resort because they double the risk of infection and increase by four times the risk of death. The ...

LAKE ZURICH, Ill. & WORCESTER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A $30 test that takes fewer than 30 minutes to perform can prevent potentially deadly transfusions of bacterial contamination in platelets, ...

Filtering white cells from donor blood before a transfusion is much safer for patients and long overdue as a national standard for all surgical procedures, according to University of Rochester ...