The James Blundell Award Lecture 2006: Transfusion and the treatment of haemorrhage: Past, present and future

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 367-374

  Dzik, W H ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Blood Transfusion Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Fresh frozen plasma; Genetics; Genomics; History; James Blundell; Pharmocogenetics

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; OXYGEN; WARFARIN;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOMICS; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PHARMACOGENOMICS; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; GENOMICS; HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTASIS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; PHARMACOGENETICS; PLASMA;

EID: 34848858684     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: 13653148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3148.2007.00795.x     Document Type: Review

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