Red blood cells from donors with sickle cell trait: A safety issue for transfusion?

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 248-253

  Ould Amar, A K ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE FORT DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Blood donors; Filterability; Morbidity; Sickle cell trait

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; SILDENAFIL;

AFRICA; AFRICAN AMERICAN; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; ERYTHROCYTE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY INFARCTION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIAPISM; REVIEW; SICKLE CELL TRAIT; URINARY TRACT DISEASE;

BLOOD DONORS; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; SICKLE CELL TRAIT;

EID: 33746430524     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: 13653148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3148.2006.00661.x     Document Type: Review

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