Adverse reactions in blood and apheresis donors: Experience from two Italian transfusion centres

Blood Transfusion

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-38

  Crocco, Isabella ^a   Franchini, Massimo ^a   Garozzo, Giovanni ^b   Gandini, Anna Rosa ^a   Gandini, Giorgio ^a   Bonomo, Pietro ^b   Aprili, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b Azienda Ospedaliera Civile Maria Paterno Arezzo   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Apheresis; Blood donation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CITRATE TOXICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; SYNCOPE; THROMBOCYTOPHERESIS; APHERESIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

CITRIC ACID;

BLOOD COMPONENT REMOVAL; BLOOD DONORS; CITRIC ACID; HUMANS; ITALY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL;

EID: 65449148334     PISSN: 17232007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2450/2008.0018-08     Document Type: Article

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