The German Haemovigilance System-reports of serious adverse transfusion reactions between 1997 and 2007

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 340-349

  Keller Stanislawski, B ^a   Lohmann, A ^a   Gunay S ^a   Heiden, M ^a   Funk, M B ^a  

^a PAUL EHRLICH INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute transfusion reaction; Frequency of serious transfusion reactions; Haemolytic transfusion reaction; Haemovigilance; TRALI

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ALLERGIC REACTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FATALITY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; NONHUMAN; VIRUS INFECTION;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; GERMANY; HUMANS; MANDATORY REPORTING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 72449152899     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: 13653148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3148.2009.00947.x     Document Type: Article

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