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Autohemotherapy
Autohemotherapy is a treatment in which a patient's own blood is withdrawn and reinjected, either unchanged or after exposure to ozone; its effectiveness is contested for lack of evidence.
Blood Component Transfusion
Blood component transfusion is the transfer of blood components such as red cells, platelets, and plasma from donor to recipient, one of the most common procedures worldwide.
Blood irradiation
Blood irradiation is a transfusion procedure that uses ionizing radiation. It inactivates donor T lymphocytes to prevent TA-GVHD, which has a fatality rate greater than 90%.
Blood transfusion = Trasfusione del sangue
Blood transfusion = Trasfusione del sangue (Trasfusione del sangue) is SIMTI's bimonthly peer-reviewed transfusion medicine journal, ISSN 1723-2007/2385-2070, published in Milan, indexed in MEDLINE, Impact Factor 2.7 (2025), official journal of SIMTI and SETS.
Compatibility testing (transfusion medicine)
Compatibility testing, also called pretransfusion testing, is the set of laboratory procedures, including ABO and RhD typing, antibody screening, and crossmatch, that confirm a blood component is safe for a specific patient.
Convalescent plasma therapy
Convalescent plasma therapy is a transfusion treatment giving plasma from recovered donors to patients with the same infection, transferring antibodies that provide passive immunity to aid recovery.
Exchange transfusion
Exchange transfusion is a procedure in which a patient's blood is gradually withdrawn and replaced with donor blood, used for severe neonatal jaundice and sickle cell disease.
Exchange Transfusion, Whole Blood
Exchange transfusion, whole blood: replacing a patient's blood aliquot by aliquot with donor whole blood or reconstituted red cells plus plasma. Used for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, hemolytic disease, and sickle cell disease; double-volume exchange is 160 mL/kg.
Human leukocyte antigen positive
Human leukocyte antigen positive (ICD-11 MA14.18) is a classification category for a positive HLA test result, paired with MA14.17 negative; used in transplant, transfusion, and disease-association contexts.
Immunohematology
Immunohematology, or blood group serology, is the laboratory study of red cell blood group antigens and antibodies for transfusion medicine, built on hemagglutination testing, reference-laboratory antibody identification, and DNA-based blood group genotyping.
Leukocyte Reduction Procedures
Leukocyte reduction (leukoreduction, leukofiltration) removes most donor white blood cells from red cell and platelet units via filtration to under 5.0 x 10^6 residual WBCs, preventing febrile non-hemolytic reactions, HLA alloimmunization, and CMV transmission.
Leukocyte Transfusion
Leukocyte (granulocyte) transfusion, GTX, is donor neutrophil transfusion for severe neutropenia with refractory bacterial or fungal infection; evidence from the RING trial and Cochrane reviews shows uncertain benefit, with dose-response signals and risks of pulmonary reactions and alloimmunization.
Lymphocyte Transfusion
Lymphocyte transfusion, chiefly donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI), transfers donor lymphocytes to a stem cell transplant recipient to treat relapse via the graft-versus-leukemia effect; main risk is graft-versus-host disease.
Massive transfusion protocol
A massive transfusion protocol (MTP) is a standardized clinical pathway for rapidly delivering predefined quantities of blood products to patients with severe hemorrhage, such as trauma.
Pathogen reduction (blood transfusion)
Pathogen reduction, also called pathogen inactivation, is a transfusion medicine treatment that damages pathogens' nucleic acids in donated platelets and plasma so they cannot transmit infection.
Platelet transfusion
A platelet transfusion infuses donated platelets to prevent or treat bleeding caused by thrombocytopenia or platelet dysfunction, with about 2.2 million doses given yearly in the United States.
Whole blood transfusion
Whole blood transfusion is the infusion of unseparated blood containing red cells, plasma, and platelets in one unit, used mainly to resuscitate patients with trauma and massive hemorrhage.
Xenotransfusion
Xenotransfusion is the transfusion of blood or blood products from another species into a human patient, investigated to relieve blood shortages, particularly in emergency settings.