...Norbert Niklas; Claudia Loimayr; Julia Lenz; Susanne Süßner; Gerhard Schuster; David Jungwirth; Werner Watzinger; Stephan Federsel Introduction: The management of an adequate donor pool is a constant and challenging task for blood centers in order to provide blood supply. New methods are required...

...- Brucella antibody in blood donors in different endemic provinces. Materials and Methods: A total of 14,706 blood donors from the 5 most prevalent provinces were studied by standard tube agglutination (STA) and any positive subjects were further confirmed by 2-mercaptoethanol agglutination test (2-ME...

...Adamma Anyanwu; Nicole Sitzmann; Svetlana Hetjens; Harald Klüter; Patrick Wuchter Summary Background: There is an increasing demand for products containing mononuclear cells (MNCs) for cellular immune therapy. Hence, leukapheresis is increasingly performed in healthy volunteer donors. Methods: We...

... phenotype, allele, and haplotype frequencies in the state of West Bengal, India. Methods: We tested 1,528 blood donors at the Medical College Hospital, Kolkata. The common antigens of the ABO, Rhesus, and Kell blood group systems were determined by standard serologic methods in tubes. Allele and haplotype...

... the donor ABO and RhD group as the historical check for recipients. Methods: A single database stores serological information on blood donors, pregnant women, and patients throughout southern Denmark. A donor ABO and RhD group can be the historical blood group should that donor later require a transfusion...

... of the federal state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Methods and Results: From 2005 to 2015 (time period with major demographic effects), whole blood donation numbers declined by 18%. In male donors this paralleled the demographic change, while donation rates of females declined 12.4% more than expected from...

...Thomas Volken; Andreas Bänziger; Andreas Buser; Damiano Castelli; Stefano Fontana; Beat M. Frey; Amira Sarraj; Jörg Sigle; Jutta Thierbach; Tina Weingand; Behrouz Mansouri-Taleghani Summary Background: Data on blood donor status obtained from general surveys and health interview surveys have been...

...Ramin Lotfi; Christine Kroll; Dietmar Plonné; Bernd Jahrsdörfer; Hubert Schrezenmeier Summary Background: Iron supplementation is generally recommended for blood donors even though there are inter-individual differences in iron homeostasis. Methods: Ferritin levels of repeat donors were compared...

...Cynthia Flickinger The American Rare Donor Program (ARDP) was formed in 1998 to provide rare blood units for patients in need. Members of the program identify rare donors and submit donor information for entrance into a database, REGGI. Information on patients in need of rare blood is also...

...Christian Weidmann; Sven Schneider; Eberhard Weck; Dagmar Menzel; Harald Klüter; Michael Müller-Steinhardt Background/Aims: The aim of this study was to compare donor return patterns of non-compensated and compensated German first-time donors to assess the effect of monetary reward on donor return...

...Kristina Hölig Mobilization of peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) in healthy volunteers with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) is currently carried out at many institutions worldwide. This report presents the experience of the Dresden center regarding donor evaluation and mobilization...

... (OR). Results: Donor rates between 1994 and 2010 increased by 8.6% in Germany (p = 0.0045) and remained stable in Switzerland. The likelihood to report donating increased with age. Gender differences (OR = 2.85; p = 0.0000) and differences between education levels were more pronounced in Switzerland as compared...

... into practice. Data management system Donors Haematopoietic cell transplantation Haematopoietic stem cells Quality management Stem cell collection Storage Transplantation 14 09 2011 28 10 2011 17 11 2011 © 2011 S. Karger AG, Basel 2011 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer...

...Lorenz Goette; Alois Stutzer; Beat M. Frey Recent shortages in the supply of blood donations have renewed the interest in how blood donations can be increased temporarily. We survey the evidence on the role of financial and other incentives in eliciting blood donations among donors who are normally...