Sentences with phrase «transfusion recipients»

Survival of Donor Leukocyte Subpopulations in Immunocompetent Transfusion Recipients: Frequent Long - Term Microchimerism in Severe Trauma Patients.

Examples include a series of studies to document persistent microchimerism of donor cells in transfusion recipients, with particular focus on mechanisms and clinical relevance of donor stem cell microchimerism in transfused trauma patients, and the immunological mechanisms and prevention of transfusion - related acute lung injury (TRALI) and alloimmunization.

For that reason, it was «prudent» in 2004, once the first transfusion - related case was discovered, for the UK to ban transfusion recipients from later donating blood, say Kumanan Wilson and Maura Ricketts of Toronto General Hospital and the Public Health Agency of Canada.

«One possibility is that components in the blood of younger donors or female donors may affect the immune system of the transfusion recipient.»

Not exact matches

Safer blood transfusion would be good news for recipients, but could testing put off potential donors, given that there is no cure for vCJD?

The recipient of the blood transfusion had received the blood in 1996 from a donor with no sign of vCJD.

Each time health care workers grab a pint of blood for an emergency transfusion, they make sure the donor and recipient have compatible blood types.

In the first large study to look at how blood transfusions from previously pregnant women affect recipients» health, researchers discovered men under 50 were 1.5 times more likely to die in the three years following a transfusion if they received a red blood cell transfusion from a woman donor who had ever been pregnant.

This is the first study to suggest that red blood cell transfusions from young donors and from female donors may be associated with poorer survival in recipients.

He conducts research on the epidemiology and health economics of the blood supply and transfusion medicine policy throughout the world, primarily focused on infectious diseases, donor health, and recipient outcomes.

Dr. Lanteri played the role of Study Coordinator for several multi-center studies including the Central Laboratory portion of the «Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study (REDS)- III» supported by the NHLBI and as one of the REDS - III investigators, she has led several REDS - III studies addressing a variety of questions on the safety of blood donations and transfusions from both the donor and the recipient pointsRecipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study (REDS)- III» supported by the NHLBI and as one of the REDS - III investigators, she has led several REDS - III studies addressing a variety of questions on the safety of blood donations and transfusions from both the donor and the recipient pointsrecipient points of view.

Microchimerism is the presence of small populations of genetically disparate cells within a host as a result of transfusion or transplacental trafficking during pregnancy, and may influence immune tolerance in the recipient.

Blood transfusion is a life - saving intervention when required, but the procedure also carries risks to the recipient beyond the risk of infection.

And on top of all this, you must monitor the recipient for transfusion reactions closely.

(ref)(Theoretically possible - but highly unlikely - a transfusion with infected blood might pass dead - end heartworm larva to the recipient dog.)

Misty is a recipient of a successful blood transfusion performed at the Oakbank Animal Hospital.

In the cat, it is apparent that we need to blood - type and crossmatch every donor recipient pair to provide our feline patients with safe and effective transfusion medicine.»

Cats with the rare AB type can be universal recipients for blood transfusions, which means they can receive either Type A or Type B blood.

So we rushed her and Mona to the emergency clinic to do a blood transfusion — a rare procedure in those days, and quite risky as mixing the wrong blood types will kill the recipient cat.