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The latest news, publications and events from Canadian Blood Services’ Medical Affairs and Innovation research and education network.
Collected from January 2020

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Topic Teaching: Infectious Disease Testing
Feb. 4, 2020 | Toronto, Ont. / Webinar

Canadian Critical Care Conference 2020
Feb. 10, 2020 | Whistler, B.C.

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Supporting collaborative research projects that will generate knowledge and lead to new discoveries to improve the safety of blood products and the blood system in general.
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Application deadline: April 10, 2020

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A Guide to Reporting Adverse Transfusion Events
By Matthew Yan | Posted Jan. 9, 2020

Concentré de recherche: Transfusion de culots globulaires : lien entre la non-concordance des sexes et la mortalité

  • Ce Concentré de recherche résume les données des études qui se sont intéressées à l’incidence de la non-concordance des sexes (lorsqu’une femme reçoit le sang d’un homme et vice-versa) sur les résultats des transfusions.

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New publications

 

Each month we feature recent publications from the Canadian Blood Services’ research and education network. At the heart of this network are our staff scientists and medical experts, whose expertise range from microbiology to immunology, coagulation to cryopreservation, hematopathology to anesthesiology and much more. Learn more about our research team.

Monitoring of prenatal patients using a combined antibody titre for Rh and non-Rh antibodies.

Farrell M, Clarke G, Barr G, Hannon J. Transfus Med. 2020 Jan 19. doi: 10.1111/tme.12661. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31957093
 

Sources of viral respiratory infections in Canadian acute care hospital healthcare personnel.

Buckrell S, Coleman BL, McNeil SA, Katz K, Muller MP, Simor A, Loeb M, Powis J, Kuster SP, Di Bella JM, Coleman KK, Drews SJ, Kohler P, McGeer A; Canadian Healthcare Worker Study Group. J Hosp Infect. 2020 Jan 16. pii: S0195-6701(20)30012-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2020.01.009. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31954763
 

The effect of serum pretreatment regimens for the detection of HLA class I antibodies in platelet-refractory patients.

Tumer G, Gniadek T, Baye J, Pena R, Warner P, Fung M, Beaudin L, Dunckley H, Gandhi M, Gathof B, Hsu S, Klohe E, Marcus N, Bamert R, Sims S, Takanashi M, Wendel S, Cohn CS; Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion (BEST) Collaborative. Transfusion. 2020 Jan 17. doi: 10.1111/trf.15666. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31951028


Influenza increases invasive meningococcal disease risk in temperate countries.

Salomon A, Berry I, Tuite AR, Drews S, Hatchette T, Jamieson F, Johnson C, Kwong J, Lina B, Lojo J, Mosnier A, Ng V, Vanhems P, Fisman DN. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2020 Jan 11. pii: S1198-743X(20)30026-4. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2020.01.004. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31935565


Implications of variability in cell membrane permeability for design of methods to remove glycerol from frozen-thawed erythrocytes.

Lahmann JM, Sanchez CC, Benson JD, Acker JP, Higgins AZ. Cryobiology. 2020 Jan 11. pii: S0011-2240(19)30138-5. doi: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2020.01.006. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31935377
 

IgG3 anti-Kell allotypic variation results in differential antigen binding and phagocytosis.

Cen SY, Holton MB, Binnington B, Denomme GA, Howie HL, Lebedev JN, Zimring JC, Branch DR. Transfusion. 2020 Jan 13. doi: 10.1111/trf.15663. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31930726


Maintaining the permanence principle for death during in situ normothermic regional perfusion for donation after circulatory death organ recovery: A United Kingdom and Canadian proposal.

Manara A, Shemie SD, Large S, Healey A, Baker A, Badiwala M, Berman M, Butler AJ, Chaudhury P, Dark J, Forsythe J, Freed DH, Gardiner D, Harvey D, Hornby L, MacLean J, Messer S, Oniscu GC, Simpson C, Teitelbaum J, Torrance S, Wilson LC, Watson CJE. Am J Transplant. 2020 Jan 10. doi: 10.1111/ajt.15775. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31922653

 

Trehalose-Based Polyethers for Cryopreservation and Three-Dimensional Cell Scaffolds.

Diaz-Dussan D, Peng YY, Sengupta J, Zabludowski R, Adam MK, Acker JP, Ben RN, Kumar P, Narain R. Biomacromolecules. 2020 Jan 21. doi: 10.1021/acs.biomac.0c00018. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31913606

 

Confounding effect of therapeutic protamine and heparin levels on routine and special coagulation testing.

Khandelwal A, Phua CW, Chaudhry HR, Tsui H, Rivard GE, Teitel JM, Sholzberg M. Blood Coagul Fibrinolysis. 2020 Jan;31(1):60-64. doi: 10.1097/MBC.0000000000000882. PMID: 31904611

 
Attitudes of healthcare providers towards cardiac donation after circulatory determination of death: a Canadian nation-wide survey.

Honarmand K, Parsons Leigh J, Basmaji J, Martin CM, Sibbald R, Nagpal D, Lau V, Priestap F, De S, Healey A, Dhanani S, Weiss MJ, Shemie S, Ball IM. Can J Anaesth. 2020 Jan 2. doi: 10.1007/s12630-019-01559-6. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31898778

 

Acceptability of cardiac donation after circulatory determination of death: a survey of the Canadian public.

Honarmand K, Parsons Leigh J, Martin CM, Sibbald R, Nagpal D, Lau V, Priestap F, De S, Basmaji J, Healey A, Dhanani S, Weiss MJ, Shemie S, Ball IM. Can J Anaesth. 2020 Jan 2. doi: 10.1007/s12630-019-01560-z. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31898773

 

American Society of Hematology 2019 guidelines for immune thrombocytopenia.

Neunert C, Terrell DR, Arnold DM, Buchanan G, Cines DB, Cooper N, Cuker A, Despotovic JM, George JN, Grace RF, Kühne T, Kuter DJ, Lim W, McCrae KR, Pruitt B, Shimanek H, Vesely SK. Blood Adv. 2019 Dec; 3(23):3829-3866. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2019000966. PMID: 31794604

 

Increased cytotoxic potential of CD8+ T cells in immune thrombocytopenia.

Vrbensky JR, Arnold DM, Kelton JG, Smith JW, Jaffer AM, Larché M, Clare R, Ivetic N, Nazy I. Br J Haematol. 2019 Dec. doi:10.1111/bjh.16334. [E pub ahead of print] PMID: 31850531

 

Establishing the Prevalence and Prevalence at Birth of Hemophilia in Males: A Meta-analytic Approach Using National Registries.

Iorio A, Stonebraker JS, Chambost H, et al, for the Data and Demographics Committee of the World Federation of Hemophilia. Ann Intern Med. 2019 Sept 10;171:540–546. doi: 10.7326/M19-1208. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31499529

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