The transfusion-related acute lung injury controversy: lessons from heparin-induced thrombocytopenia

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine and the Department of Medicine, McMaster University, and Transfusion Medicine, Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program, Service of Clinical Hematology, Hamilton Health Sciences (General Site), Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
² Institut Für Immunologie Und Transfusionsmedizin, Universitätsmedizin Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
³ Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany.

Review

Theodore E Warkentin et al. Transfusion. 2015 May.

. 2015 May;55(5):1128-34.

doi: 10.1111/trf.12994. Epub 2015 Feb 3.

¹ Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine and the Department of Medicine, McMaster University, and Transfusion Medicine, Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program, Service of Clinical Hematology, Hamilton Health Sciences (General Site), Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
² Institut Für Immunologie Und Transfusionsmedizin, Universitätsmedizin Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
³ Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany.

No abstract available

Comment in

Redefining transfusion-related acute lung injury: don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Peters AL, Vlaar AP. Peters AL, et al. Transfusion. 2016 Sep;56(9):2384-8. doi: 10.1111/trf.13643. Epub 2016 May 17. Transfusion. 2016. PMID: 27184913
Letter of response to Peters and Vlaar commentary.
Warkentin TE, Greinacher A, Bux J. Warkentin TE, et al. Transfusion. 2016 Sep;56(9):2395-7. doi: 10.1111/trf.13747. Transfusion. 2016. PMID: 27624213 No abstract available.