There is a lack of evidence-based guidelines for neonatal transfusion practices as seen by the diverse RBC transfusion practices among individuals and institutions. [3,5,27,28,29,30,31,32] The US ...

"I have high hopes for the future of thalassemia," one patient says Memories of classical ballet performances dance in Wanda Sihanath’s head when she thinks about her childhood in Elgin, Illinois. She ...

A new study based on interviews with families and patients undergoing chronic transfusion therapy for sickle cell disease finds that the therapy affects the families in ways that extend beyond health.

The development and approval of gene therapies has been a potential game changer for patients with beta-thalassaemia who have been dependent on regular red blood cell transfusions -- a substantial ...

Silent cerebral infarcts are the most common neurologic injury in children with sickle cell anemia and are associated with the recurrence of an infarct (stroke or silent cerebral infarct). We tested ...

A novel gene therapy promoted transfusion independence in more than 90 percent of adult and pediatric patients with transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia, according to a recent clinical trial ...

ATLANTA -- Patients with transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia (TDT) who received a gene therapy achieved normal or near-normal levels of total hemoglobin and transfusion independence, with stable iron ...

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced data demonstrating the clinical benefits of CASGEVY ® (exagamglogene autotemcel) in people ages 5 years and older living with severe ...

Safe blood practices go beyond technology and laboratory testing. They require a culture of quality, vigilance, continuous ...

Memories of classical ballet performances dance in Wanda Sihanath's head when she thinks about her childhood in Elgin, Illinois. She remembers balancing at the barre to Beethoven and pirouetting to ...

Transfusion practices vary widely among neonatal intensive care units. The risks and benefits of transfusion as well as the disease being treated and the condition of the patient must be considered in ...

THE subjects of blood and its derivatives, blood grouping, blood banking and blood transfusion were well reviewed in this journal in 1948 by Gibson 1 and in 1951 by Soutter, Allen and Emerson. 2 The ...