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    Transfusion: Volume 60, Issue 8

    C1, 1647-1885, E21-E31
    August 2020
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ISSUE INFORMATION

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Cover

  • Page: C1
  • First Published: 12 August 2020
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Masthead and Table of Contents

  • First Published: 12 August 2020

EDITORIALS

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Plasma exchange in TTP: to taper or not to taper

Christopher J. Patriquin MD, MSc, FRCPC,  Katerina Pavenski MD, FRCPC, 
  • Pages: 1647-1648
  • First Published: 12 August 2020

See brief report on page 1666–1668, in this issue; See brief report on page 1676–1680, in this issue

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Donor education – times change and we with time

Sheila F. OʼBrien PhD, 
  • Pages: 1649-1652
  • First Published: 12 August 2020

See article on page 1747–1755, in this issue; See article on page 1756–1764, in this issue

KEEP AHEAD

A monthly roundup of key articles in other journals

Caitlin McOmish PhD, 
  • Pages: 1653-1655
  • First Published: 28 July 2020

TRANSFUSION MEDICINE ILLUSTRATED

Google Trends as an early indicator for shortages of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG)

Jan Hartmann, 
  • Pages: 1656-1657
  • First Published: 12 May 2020

How Do I?

How do we use electronic clinical decision support and feedback to promote good transfusion practice

Sophie Staples,  Richard A. Salisbury,  Andrew J. King,  Paolo Polzella,  Gardash Bakhishli,  Julie Staves,  Michael F. Murphy, 
  • Pages: 1658-1665
  • First Published: 09 July 2020

BRIEF REPORT

Caplacizumab for treatment of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura in a patient with anaphylaxis to fresh-frozen plasma

Mehraboon S. Irani,  Federico Sanchez,  Kenneth Friedman, 
  • Pages: 1666-1668
  • First Published: 01 May 2020

See editorial on page 1647–1648, in this issue

Red blood cell transfusions alter splanchnic oxygenation response to enteral feeding in preterm infants: an observational pilot study

Silvia Martini,  Caterina Spada,  Arianna Aceti,  Paola Rucci,  Dino Gibertoni,  Barbara Battistini,  Santo Arcuri,  Giacomo Faldella,  Luigi Corvaglia, 
  • Pages: 1669-1675
  • First Published: 01 May 2020

Therapeutic plasma exchange taper does not decrease exacerbations in immune thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura patients

Jay S. Raval,  Marshall A. Mazepa,  Marian A. Rollins-Raval,  Raj S. Kasthuri,  Yara A. Park, 
  • Pages: 1676-1680
  • First Published: 21 July 2020

See editorial on page 1647–1648, in this issue

A national survey of hospital-based transfusion services on their approaches to platelet bacterial risk mitigation in response to the FDA final guidance for industry

Wen Lu,  Meghan Delaney,  Nancy M. Dunbar,  Susan N. Rossmann,  Mark Fung, 
  • Pages: 1681-1687
  • First Published: 21 June 2020

CME

Continuing Medical Education Program in Transfusion

  • Page: 1688
  • First Published: 12 August 2020

TRANSFUSION MEDICINE

Smoking and risk of surgical bleeding: nationwide analysis of 5,452,411 surgical cases

Ask T. Nordestgaard,  Lars S. Rasmussen,  Martin Sillesen,  Jacob Steinmetz,  David R. King,  Noelle Saillant,  Haytham M. Kaafarani,  George C. Velmahos, 
  • Pages: 1689-1699
  • First Published: 22 May 2020

TRANSFUSION PRACTICE

Individual- and hospital-level correlates of red blood cell, platelet, and plasma transfusions among hospitalized children and neonates: a nationally representative study in the United States

Ruchika Goel,  Cassandra D. Josephson,  Eshan U. Patel,  Molly R. Petersen,  Zoe Packman,  Eric Gehrie,  Evan M. Bloch,  Parvez Lokhandwala,  Paul M. Ness,  Louis Katz,  Marianne Nellis,  Oliver Karam,  Aaron A. R. Tobian, 
  • Pages: 1700-1712
  • First Published: 26 June 2020

Blood utilization and characteristics of patients treated with chronic transfusion therapy in a large cohort of Brazilian patients with sickle cell disease

Shannon Kelly,  André Rolim Belisário,  Daniela O. Werneck Rodrigues,  Anna B.F. Carneiro-Proietti,  Thelma T. Gonçalez,  Paula Loureiro,  Miriam V. Flor-Park,  Claudia Maximo,  Rosimere Afonso Mota,  Carla Dinardo,  Don Brambilla,  Liliana Preiss,  Ester Sabino,  Brian Custer,  for the NHLBI Recipient Epidemiology Donor Evaluation Study (REDS-III) International Component–Brazil , 
  • Pages: 1713-1722
  • First Published: 24 June 2020

TRANSFUSION COMPLICATIONS

The comparative safety of bacterial risk control strategies for platelet components: a simulation study

Brandon S. Walker,  Robert L. Schmidt,  Mark A. Fisher,  Sandra K. White,  Robert C. Blaylock,  Ryan A. Metcalf, 
  • Pages: 1723-1731
  • First Published: 06 July 2020

PATIENT BLOOD MANAGEMENT

Preoperative erythropoietin within a patient blood management program decreases both blood transfusion and postoperative anemia: a prospective observational study

Philippe Biboulet,  Caroline Motais,  Mathieu Pencole,  Oliver Karam,  Gaëtan Dangelser,  Pierre Smilevitch,  Guillaume Maissiat,  Xavier Capdevila,  Sophie Bringuier, 
  • Pages: 1732-1740
  • First Published: 18 July 2020

Blood use for transvenous lead extractions at a high-volume center

Brian C. Cho,  Sinead Nyhan,  Kevin R. Merkel,  Nadia B. Hensley,  Eric A. Gehrie,  Chun W. Choi,  Charles J. Love,  Steven M. Frank, 
  • Pages: 1741-1746
  • First Published: 24 June 2020

BLOOD DONORS AND BLOOD COLLECTION

Evaluation of donor informed consents and associated predonation educational materials in the United States and Canada: variability in elements of consent and measures of readability and reading burden

Mary Townsend,  Terri Buccino,  Louis Katz, 
  • Pages: 1747-1755
  • First Published: 04 July 2020

See editorial on page 1649–1652, in this issue

Evaluation and improvement of blood donor educational materials: results from a multicenter randomized controlled trial

Gay Wehrli,  Susan N. Rossmann,  Dan A. Waxman,  Louis M. Katz, 
  • Pages: 1756-1764
  • First Published: 20 June 2020

See editorial on page 1649–1652, in this issue

Characteristics and serological patterns of COVID-19 convalescent plasma donors: optimal donors and timing of donation

Ling Li,  Xunliang Tong,  Hanwei Chen,  Rui He,  Qilu Lv,  Ru Yang,  Lei Zhao,  Jue Wang,  Haixia Xu,  Chuanqiao Liu,  Guoan Chen,  Sitian Chen,  Chenyue Li,  Jiajia Qiao,  Juntao Yang,  Yanyun Wu,  Zhong Liu, 
  • Pages: 1765-1772
  • First Published: 06 July 2020

Feasibility of a pilot program for COVID-19 convalescent plasma collection in Wuhan, China

Ling Li,  Ru Yang,  Jue Wang,  Qilu Lv,  Ming Ren,  Lei Zhao,  Hanwei Chen,  Haixia Xu,  Songli Xie,  Jin Xie,  Hui Lin,  Wenjuan Li,  Peng Fang,  Li Gong,  Lan Wang,  Yanyun Wu,  Zhong Liu, 
  • Pages: 1773-1777
  • First Published: 03 June 2020
Open Access

Estimation of the number of blood donors during the COVID-19 incubation period across China and analysis of prevention and control measures for blood transfusion transmission

Zhaohu Yuan,  Dandan Chen,  Xiaojie Chen,  Yaming Wei, 
  • Pages: 1778-1784
  • First Published: 22 May 2020
Open Access

First results of a ferritin-based blood donor deferral policy in the Netherlands

Marieke Vinkenoog,  Katja van den Hurk,  Marian van Kraaij,  Matthijs van Leeuwen,  Mart P. Janssen, 
  • Pages: 1785-1792
  • First Published: 13 June 2020

Optimizing blood bank resources when implementing a low-titer group O+ whole blood program: an in silico study

Jansen N. Seheult,  Michele Tysarczyk,  Alesia Kaplan,  Darrell J. Triulzi,  Mark H. Yazer, 
  • Pages: 1793-1803
  • First Published: 08 June 2020

DONOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE TESTING

Qualification of the Geenius HIV 1/2 supplemental assay for use in the HIV blood donation screening algorithm

Paula Saá,  Rebecca L. Townsend,  Peggy Wells,  Mark A. Janzen,  Jaye P. Brodsky,  Susan L. Stramer, 
  • Pages: 1804-1810
  • First Published: 27 April 2020

CELLULAR THERAPIES

A multicenter evaluation of heterogeneity in cellular therapy processing laboratory procedure times to assess workload capacity

Suzanne R. Thibodeaux,  David H. McKenna,  Zbigniew M. Szczepiorkowski,  Magali J. Fontaine,  Linda Kelley,  Jo-Anna Reems,  Pampee P. Young,  for the Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion (BEST) Collaborative , 
  • Pages: 1811-1820
  • First Published: 12 July 2020

BLOOD COMPONENTS

Digital droplet polymerase chain reaction to monitor ultraviolet C treatment of single-donor and buffy coat platelet units

Uta Voglau,  Thomas H. Müller,  Axel Seltsam,  Ute Gravemann,  Wiebke Handke,  Andrea Doescher, 
  • Pages: 1821-1827
  • First Published: 14 June 2020
Open Access

Pooling, room temperature, and extended storage time increase the release of adult-specific biologic response modifiers in platelet concentrates: a hidden transfusion risk for neonates?

Miriam Waubert de Puiseau,  Lina K. Sciesielski,  Oliver Meyer,  Zhi-Jian Liu,  Chiara-Aiyleen Badur,  Helge Schönfeld,  Rudolf Tauber,  Axel Pruß,  Martha C. Sola-Visner,  Christof Dame, 
  • Pages: 1828-1836
  • First Published: 27 April 2020

Retrospective cohort studies of repeat donors reveal donor-dependent variability in the recovery of transfused platelets

Jonathan A. Stefely,  Michael Gailey,  Michael Knudson,  Larry J. Dumont,  Thomas J. Raife,  Noelle I. Samia, 
  • Pages: 1837-1845
  • First Published: 01 June 2020
KEY POINTS

  • In vivo recovery of autologously transfused platelets is relatively consistent within donors
  • Clinical platelet transfusion corrected count increments vary depending on the donor and the storage time

Open Access

Prolonged (post-thaw) shelf life of −80°C frozen AB apheresis plasma

Tim W.H. Rijnhout,  Femke Noorman,  Bob De Kort,  Margreet Zoodsma,  Rigo Hoencamp, 
  • Pages: 1846-1855
  • First Published: 21 July 2020

IMMUNOHEMATOLOGY

Differential red blood cell age fractionation and Band 3 phosphorylation distinguish two different subtypes of warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia

Evgenia M. Bloch,  Haley A. Branch,  Darinka Sakac,  Regina M. Leger,  Donald R. Branch, 
  • Pages: 1856-1866
  • First Published: 04 August 2020

HEMAPHERESIS

Incorporation of extracorporeal photopheresis into a reduced intensity conditioning regimen in myelodysplastic syndrome and aggressive lymphoma: results from ECOG 1402 and 1902

Francine M. Foss,  Xin Victoria Wang,  Selina M. Luger,  Opeyemi Jegede,  Kenneth B. Miller,  Edward A. Stadtmauer,  Theresa L. Whiteside,  David E. Avigan,  Randall D. Gascoyne,  Daniel Arber,  Henry Wagner,  Roger K. Strair,  William J. Hogan,  Kellie A. Sprague,  Hillard M. Lazarus,  Mark R. Litzow,  Martin S. Tallman,  Sandra J. Horning, 
  • Pages: 1867-1872
  • First Published: 12 July 2020

REVIEW

Open Access

The impact of blood product ratio and procoagulant therapy on the development of thromboembolic events in severely injured hemorrhaging trauma patients

Mathijs R. Wirtz,  Daisy V. Schalkers,  J. Carel Goslings,  Nicole P. Juffermans, 
  • Pages: 1873-1882
  • First Published: 24 June 2020

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Free Access

COVID-19 and ABO blood groups

Sunny Dzik MD,  Kent Eliason MT(ASCP), SBB,  Edward B. Morris MHA,  Richard M. Kaufman MD,  Crystal M. North MD, MPH, 
  • Pages: 1883-1884
  • First Published: 19 June 2020

ERRATUM

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ERRATUM

  • Page: 1885
  • First Published: 21 July 2020

ONLINE ONLY

REPORT OF NEW ALLELES OR ANTIGENS

Identification of a novel null allele of the KEL gene in a Korean patient with the Kell null phenotype

Tae Yeul Kim,  Heeyeon Kim,  Yun Ji Hong,  Kyoung Un Park, 
  • Pages: E21-E22
  • First Published: 29 June 2020

RHCE*02 (c.148G>A, p.Val50Ile) allele with silenced RHCE*Ce expression

Rebecca Anderson,  Sunitha Vege,  Judith Aeschlimann,  Connie Westhoff,  Sukanta Banerjee,  Jiacheng Yang, 
  • Pages: E23-E24
  • First Published: 01 July 2020
Open Access

KDAS, a new blood group antigen in the Knops blood group system antithetical to KCAM

Erwin A. Scharberg,  Gabi Rink,  Daniela Schulz,  Sina Rothenberger,  Annette Stürtzel,  Nicole Gillhuber,  Susanne Seyboth,  Peter Bugert, 
  • Pages: E25-E27
  • First Published: 26 June 2020

Identification of a novel A allele with a missense mutation (c.737A>G) in a Chinese individual with a weak A phenotype

Baoren He,  Bin Li,  Jinlian Liu,  Xuejun Liu, 
  • Pages: E28-E29
  • First Published: 24 June 2020

Identification of a novel A allele with a c.731T>C mutation on the ABO*A1.02 allele

Xiaozhen Hong,  Yanling Ying,  Kairong Ma,  Xianguo Xu,  Ji He,  Faming Zhu, 
  • Pages: E30-E31
  • First Published: 03 July 2020