Summary

Rossi's Principles of Transfusion Medicine is the most comprehensive and practical reference on transfusion science and medicine available. It features brand new chapters on the measurement of cell kinetics, obstetric transfusion practice, cord blood, transfusion alternatives and regenerative medicine. Produced jointly with AABB, the world's leading association in the fields of blood banking and transfusion medicine, it now has two companion CD-ROMs-one containing interactive case studies and one containing PDFs of all 66 chapters.

Author Biography

Toby L. Simon, MD, Corporate Medical Director, ZLB Plasma, a CSL Behring company, Boca Raton, Florida and Clinical Professor, Department of Pathology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Edward L Snyder, MD, Professor, Laboratory Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital, USA

Christopher P. Stowell, MD, PhD, Director, Blood Transfusion Service, Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Ronald G. Strauss, MD, Professor of Pathology and Pediatrics, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, USA

Bjarte G. Solheim, PhD, MHA, Professor/Head Physician, Institute of Immunology, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway

Marian Petrides, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology, University of Missouri School of Medicine and Medical Director,Transfusion Service and Coagulation Laboratory, University of Missouri Health Care, Columbia, Missouri, USA

Contributors
Preface
Transfusion in the New Millennium
Blood Components and Derivatives
Red Blood Cells
Red Cell Production and Kinetics
Regulation of Oxygen Delivery by Red Cells and Red Cell Substitutes
Red Blood Cell Metabolism and Preservation
Red Cell Immunology and Compatibility Testing
Carbohydrate Blood Groups
Rh and LW Blood Groups
Other Protein Blood Groups
Anemia and Red Blood Cell Transfusion
Platelets
Platelet Production, Kinetics, and Hemostasis
Platelet Immunology and Alloimmunization: Brian R Curtis
Preparation, Preservation, and Storage of Platelet Concentrates
Thrombocytopenia and Platelet Transfusio
White Blood Cells
Neutrophil Production and Kinetics: Neutropenia and Neutrophilia
Neutrophil Collection and Transfusion
Leukocyte-Reduced Blood Components: Laboratory and Clinical Aspects
Plasma
Composition and Mechanisms of Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis
Immunoglobulins
Preparation and Use of Plasma Derivatives
Plasma Transfusion and Use of Albumin
Cell Kinetics
Applications of Cellular Radiolabeliing in Transfusion Medicine
Clinical Practice
Medical Patients
Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia and Paroxysmal Noctural Hemoglobinuria
Management of Immune Thrombocytopenias
Bleeding from Acquired Coagulation Defects and Antithrombotic Therapy
Obstetric and Pediatric Patients
Fetal and Neonatal Hematopoiesis
Obstetric Transfusion Practice
Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn
Congenital Disorders of Clotting Proteins and Hypercoagulable States in Pediatrics
Management of Congenital Hemolytic Anemias
Blood Component Transfusions for Infants
Oncology Patients
Transfusion Support for the Oncology Patient
Hematopoietic Growth Factors (Cytokines)
Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells: Biology and Processing
Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells: Autologous Transplantation
Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells: Allogeneic Transplantation
Umbilical Cord Blood: A Reliable Source of Stem and Progenitor Cells for Human Transplantation
Surgery Patients
Alternatives to Transfusion: Perioperative Blood Management
Blood Components to Achieve Hemostasis for Surgery and Invasive Procedures
Transfusion Therapy in the Care of Trauma and Burn Patients
Transfusion Therapy in Solid-Organ Transplantation
Apheresis
Apheresis: Principles and Technology of Hemapheresis
Therapeutic Plasma Exchange
Specialized Therapeutic Hemapheresis and Phlebotomy
Hazards of Transfusion
Hemovigilance
Overview of Hemovigilance
Immunomodulatory and Proinflammatory Effects of Allogeneic Blood Tranfusion
Infectious Hazards of Transfusion
Transfusion-Transmitted Hepatitis
Retroviruses and Other Viruses
Transfusion Transmission of Parasites
Bacterial Contamination of Blood Products
Prion Diseases
Pathogen Inactivation
Noninfectious Hazards
Hemolytic Transfusion Reactions
Febrile, Allergic, and Nonimmune Transfusion Reactions
Transfusion-Associated Graft-vs-Host Disease
Tranfusional Iron Overload: Sujit Sheth
Transfusion-Related Acute Lung Injury
Cell and Tissue Therapy
HLA Antigens and Alleles
Tissue Banking
Adoptive Immunotherapy
Gene Therapy in Transfusion Medicine
Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Delivery of Transfusion and Transplantation Services
Recruitment and Screening of Donors and the Collection, Processing, and Testing of Blood
Current Legal Issues in Transfusion Medicine
Current Good Manufacturing Practice
Transplant Organizations and Networks in the Regulation of Cellular Therapy Programs
Hospital Transfusion Committee and Quality Assurance
Index
Companion PC and Mac Compatible CD-ROMs
CD-ROM 1: All chapters of the book with a full text search function
CD-ROM 2: Cases
Posttransfusion Hemolysis
Child with Low Fibrinogen
Head Injury, Sudden Dyspnea
A Transfusion Fatality
Platelet Refractoriness
An Unexpected Panagglutinin
Postsurgical Bleeding
Jehovah's Witness Surgery
Delayed Fever and Dark Urine
Fever in Neutropenic Child
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