Overview

Vox Sanguinis is an international journal published on behalf of the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT), reporting on significant developments and advancements in transfusion medicine.

Aims and Scope

Vox Sanguinis reports on all issues related to transfusion medicine, ‘vein to vein’ from donor to recipient, and including cellular therapies. Comments, reviews, original articles, short reports and international fora are published, grouped into eight main sections:

1) Donors and Donations

  • Donor recruitment and retention
  • Donor selection
  • Donor health (vigilance, side effects of donation)
  • Big data analysis and blood donation

2) Blood Component Collection and Production

  • Blood collection methods and devices (including apheresis)
  • Blood component preparation and storage
  • Inventory management
  • Collection and storage of cells for cell therapies
  • Quality management and good manufacturing practice
  • Automation and information technology
  • Plasma fractionation techniques and plasma derivatives

3) Transfusion-transmitted Disease and its Prevention

  • Identification and epidemiology of infectious pathogens transmissible by blood
  • Donor testing for transfusion-transmissible infectious pathogens
  • Bacterial contamination of blood components
  • Pathogen inactivation

4) Transfusion Medicine and New Therapies

  • Transfusion practice, thresholds and audits
  • Transfusion efficacy assessment, clinical trials
  • Non-infectious transfusion adverse events
  • Therapeutic apheresis

5) Haemovigilance

  • Near misses, adverse events and side effects throughout the transfusion chain 
  • Monitoring, reporting and analysis of those adverse events and side effects
  • Activities aiming at increasing the safety of the whole transfusion chain
  • Standardization of the definition of adverse events and side effects

6) Patient Blood Management

  • Caring for patients who might need a transfusion
  • Transfusion indication decision-making process 
  • Search for the optimal patient outcomes
  • Study of transfusion alternatives
  • Autologous blood transfusion

7) Immunohaematology

  • Red cell, platelet and granulocyte immunohaematology
  • Blood phenotyping and genotyping
  • Molecular genetics of blood groups
  • Alloimmunity of blood
  • Pre-transfusion testing
  • Autoimmunity in transfusion medicine
  • Blood typing reagents and technology
  • Immunogenetics of blood cells and serum proteins: polymorphisms and function
  • Complement in immunohaematology
  • Parentage testing and forensic immunohaematology

8) Cellular Therapies

  • Cellular therapy (sources; products; processing and storage; donors)
  • Cell-based therapies
  • Genetically modified cell therapies
  • Stem cells (sources, collection, processing, storage, infusion)
  • Cellular immunotherapy (e.g., CAR-T cells, NK cells, MSC)
  • Cell-based regenerative medicine
  • Molecular therapy
  • In vitro manufacturing of blood components

Vox Sanguinis also publishes the abstracts associated with international and regional congresses of the ISBT. (Abstracts from meetings other than those held by the ISBT are not accepted.)

Readership
Specialists interested in the present state of transfusion research and practice. Received by all members of the ISBT as part of their membership.

Keywords
Vox Sanguinis, VOX haematology, blood, transfusion, transfusion medicine, transfusion science

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