Routine bacterial screening of apheresis platelets on D ay 4 using a rapid test: a 4‐year single‐center experience

NM Dunbar, JD Kreuter, CR Marx‐Wood… - …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Background The platelet (PLT) P an G enera D etection test (PGD) is a rapid bacterial
detection system used to screen PLTs for bacterial contamination. We report a single center …

Increased alloimmunisation and transfusion reaction reporting in patients with solid-phase panreactivity

AM Olofson, RM Chandler, CR Marx-Wood… - Journal of Clinical …, 2017 - jcp.bmj.com
Background Automated solid-phase antibody screening uses red blood cell (RBC)
membranes immobilised on polystyrene test wells to detect RBC specific antibodies. Despite …

[CITATION][C] Ibrutinib is an effective treatment of autoimmune haemolytic anaemia in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia

S Manda, N Dunbar, CR Marx‐Wood… - British Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (AIHA) is a life-threatening complication of chronic
lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). It is the most common variant of autoimmune cytopenia in …

[CITATION][C] Retrograde patient blood flow and rouleaux preventing red blood cell transfusion

NM Dunbar, CR Marx‐Wood, KJ Maynard, DP Ng… - …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
2. Next article in issue: Cost-effectiveness of prion filtration of red blood cells to reduce the
risk of transfusion-transmitted variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the Republic of Ireland