Abstract
Transfusion medicine (TM) is a field of medicine dealing with the removal and/or transfusion of blood or blood components. Traditionally, TM has been thought of as just blood collection, pretransfusion testing, and blood administration. The blood bank community goes to great lengths to ensure that blood component transfusions are safe and achieve the desired outcome. However, modern TM is so much more than blood banking. The future of TM lies in cellular therapies: the collection, processing, and infusion of bone marrow, peripheral blood stem cells, cord blood, peripheral blood mononuclear cells, and chimeric antigen receptor T cells (CAR-T cells). This chapter provides images and tables to provide insight into the exciting field of TM and cellular therapy.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Atlas of Diagnostic Hematology |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Pages | 368-392 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780323567381 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780323567343 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2020 |
Keywords
- apheresis
- blood
- blood bank
- cellular therapy
- immunohematology
- stem cell transplant
- transfusion medicine