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Blood Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . October 2nd, 1995

Non-Subscriber - Summaries Only

Related Areas: Other Issues in Blood Weekly | Other Publications

Diagnostics - PCR May Have Value in Determining RhD Blood Type

Conference Coverage (AATB) - Cancer Transmission Risk Should Not Preclude Emergency Transplantation of Skin

Conference Coverage (AATB) - Four-Part Strategy Increases Heart-Valve Donation

Conference Coverage (AATB) - Sterility Cultures for Allograft Bone Should Be Studied for 14 Days

Diagnosis (HCV) - Liver Biopsy Recommended for Patients with Chronic Infection

Diagnostics (HCV) - Alpha-Glutathione S-Transferase Is a Stable Marker

Industry News (Clinical Trials) - Early Phase II Studies of Optro to 100 Grams Completed

Industry News (Joint Venture) - Tissue Engineering Agreement Signed

Industry News (Therapy) - White Blood Cell Stimulant Cleared To Treat Leukemia

Leukocyte Adherence Deficiency - Improved Gene Transfer Techniques for Gene Therapy of LAD

Prognosis - Use of APACHE II System Can Be Extended to Patients with Cerebral Malaria

Prostate Cancer (Diagnostics) - New 'Calibrator' Should Improve Cancer Testing

Testing - Home HIV Test Is Found To Be Reliable and Effective

Transfusion - Blood Salvaged from Pediatric Patients May be Reinfused Up to 18 Hours

Transmission/Hepatitis B - Contaminated Equipment, Not Sexual Contact, Is Major Transmission Route

Transmission - Study: Needle Exchanges Work

Vertical Transmission - AZT Resistance and HIV-1 Mother-to-Child Transmission

Diagnostics - Testing - "Quantitation of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) RNA in Plasma of Acute and Chronically Infected Rhesus Macaques Using a Branched DNA (bDNA) Signal Amplification Assay."

Disease Associations - "Cytomegalovirus Antigenemia after Autologous Marrow and Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplant."

Disease Associations - "Epidemic Hepatitis B among Heart Transplant Recipients Due to Transmissions During Routine Heart Biopsy."

Disease Associations - "Hepatic Alterations in HIV Infected Patients: 82 Cases Report."

Occupational Risk - "Protecting Medical Students from Infection: A Survey of United States Medical Schools (USMS)."

Occupational Risk - "Simultaneous Transmission of both Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) with Delayed Seroconversion in a Healthcare Worker (HCW)."

Prophylaxis - "Use of Solvent-Detergent Treated Immune Globulin Intravenous (Human) [IGIV] in Patients at High Risk For Adverse Reactions."

Transmission - HCV - "Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) in Recipients of Potentially Contaminated Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG)."

Transmission - Perinatal - "Mother-to-Infant Transmission of Hepatitis C in Children Born to Mothers Coinfected with HIV and HCV."

Blood Banking - "An Outbreak of Hepatitis A Among Irish Haemophiliacs."

Blood Storage (Microorganisms) - "Rate of Growth of Pseudomonas fluorescens in Donated Blood."

Diagnostics (HCV) - "Volunteer Blood Donors with Antibody to Hepatitis C Virus: Clinical, Biochemical, Virologic, and Histologic Features."

Diagnostics (Toxoplasma gondii) - "Detection of Toxoplasma gondii by PCR and Tissue Culture in Cerebrospinal Fluid and Blood of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Seropositive Patients."

Eye Banking - "Corneal Grafting of Donor Tissue Preserved for Longer Than 4 Weeks in Organ-Culture Medium."

Fibrin Glue (Clinical Trials) - "No Detrimental Effect of Fibrin Glue on the Regeneration of Intrabony Defects - A Controlled Clinical Trial."

Occupational Risk (Healthcare Workers) - "HIV Seroprevalence in Emergency Department Patients: Portland, Oregon, 1988-1991."

Transfusion (Autologous) - "Preoperative Autologous Blood Donation: Benefit or Detriment? A Mathematical Analysis."

Transfusion (Platelet) - "Platelet Concentrates Promote Procoagulant Activity: Evidence from Experimental Studies Using a Perfusion Technique."

Transplantation (BMT) - "Platelet Refractoriness and Alloimmunization in Pediatric Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant Patients."

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