Every day, hospitals throughout the U.S. transfuse blood or blood components, such as platelets, to save the lives of people who are in car crashes, and victims of fires and other emergencies.

Background: Transfusion-dependent bone marrow transplant recipients are routinely transfused with ABO group and RhD-compatible blood components. However, because of the scarcity of RhD-negative ...

investigation of antibody problems and transfusion reactions, component therapy, hemostasis consultation, apheresis collections and various types of therapeutic apheresis, including photopheresis, ...

or other blood components, depending on the underlying condition that’s being treated. Before you receive a planned blood ...

But the transfusion procedure itself can disrupt both blood flow ... used the two techniques alongside ultrasound to improve thyroid cancer screening, with the diffuse optics component of the platform ...

In our institution in which large numbers of PBSC and BM transplants are performed, such patients are usually transfusion-dependent. Because of the scarcity of RhD-negative blood components ...