The
Transfusion News email arrived today. Rather interesting, but isn’t it rather
obvious that long term blood donors are going to become iron-deficient?
Question of the Day
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Join the Transfusion News team for a live session at the2017 AABB Annual Meeting. Sunday October 8, 8:30-10am [Read More]
Frequent Donors Give More Blood but Are More Likely to be Iron Deficient
The first randomized trial assessing donation-intervals recently published in The Lancet will help to clarify safe whole blood donation frequencies which vary from 8 to 16 weeks around the world. Over two years, researchers randomly assigned more than 45,000 U.K. donors to different donation frequencies to compare the amount of whole blood collected and the [Read More]
Patients with Moderate ADAMTS13 Deficiency have Increased Risk of Dying
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September 21, 2017
Thrombotic microangiopathies (TMAs) may develop from diverse group of etiologies. While activity levels less than 10% of ADAMTS13 help to clinically diagnose thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), the significance of mild (41%-70%) or moderate (11%-40%) ADAMTS13 deficiency for patients with TMA is unclear. Researchers retrospectively examined 254 TMA patient’s charts from three large medical centers in [Read More]
Thrombotic microangiopathies (TMAs) may develop from diverse group of etiologies. While activity levels less than 10% of ADAMTS13 help to clinically diagnose thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), the significance of mild (41%-70%) or moderate (11%-40%) ADAMTS13 deficiency for patients with TMA is unclear. Researchers retrospectively examined 254 TMA patient’s charts from three large medical centers in [Read More]
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