Exploring donor and product factors and their impact on red cell post-transfusion outcomes

Transfusion Medicine Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 28-35

  Ning, Shuoyan ^a   Heddle, Nancy M ^a,b   Acker, Jason P ^b,c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN BLOOD SERVICES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood donors; Blood transfusion; Outcomes; Red blood cells; Storage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD FILTRATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CELL AGING; CELL SEPARATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE PRESERVATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; PRECLINICAL STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECIPIENT; AGE; APHERESIS; BLOOD COMPONENT THERAPY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CYTOLOGY; ERYTHROCYTE; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; BLOOD COMPONENT REMOVAL; BLOOD COMPONENT TRANSFUSION; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85030648368     PISSN: 08877963     EISSN: 15329496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmrv.2017.07.006     Document Type: Review

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