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Why are all men who have had sex with men even once since 1977 indefinitely deferred from donating blood?.

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Vamvakas EC

Transfusion 49(6):1037-42, 2009 Jun - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 19638153 | Fulltext

Transfusion-related mortality: the ongoing risks of allogeneic blood transfusion and the available strategies for their prevention.

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Vamvakas EC and Blajchman MA

Blood 113(15):3406-17, 2009 Apr 9 - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 19188662 | Fulltext

Scientific background on the risk engendered by reducing the lifetime blood donation deferral period for men who have sex with men.

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Vamvakas EC

Transfusion medicine reviews 23(2):85-102, 2009 Apr - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 19304111 | Fulltext

Long-term survival rate of pediatric patients after blood transfusion.

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Transfusion 48(11):2478-80, 2008 Nov - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 19054379 | Fulltext

Rationale for randomized controlled trials and for intention-to-treat analysis in transfusion medicine: are they one and the same?.

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Vox sanguinis 95(3):165-73, 2008 Oct - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 19121180 | Fulltext

Transfusion-related immunomodulation (TRIM): an update.

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Vamvakas EC and Blajchman MA

Blood reviews 21(6):327-48, 2007 Nov - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 17804128 | Fulltext

Why have meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials of the association between non-white-blood-cell-reduced allogeneic blood transfusion and postoperative infection produced discordant results?.

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Vox sanguinis 93(3):196-207, 2007 Oct - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 17845256 | Fulltext

Hepatitis B virus DNA-positive, hepatitis B surface antigen-negative blood donations intercepted by anti-hepatitis B core antigen testing: the Canadian Blood Services experience.

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O'Brien SF, Fearon MA, Yi QL, Fan W, Scalia V, Muntz IR, and Vamvakas EC

Transfusion 47(10):1809-15, 2007 Oct - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 17880605 | Fulltext

The Canadian blood donor health assessment questionnaire: lessons from history, application of cognitive science principles, and recommendations for change.

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O'Brien SF, Ram SS, Vamvakas EC, and Goldman M

Transfusion medicine reviews 21(3):205-22, 2007 Jul - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 17572260 | Fulltext

White-blood-cell-containing allogeneic blood transfusion and postoperative infection or mortality: an updated meta-analysis.

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Vamvakas EC

Vox sanguinis 92(3):224-32, 2007 Apr - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 17348871 | Fulltext

A survey of the demographics of blood use.

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Cobain TJ, Vamvakas EC, Wells A, and Titlestad K

Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England) 17(1):1-15, 2007 Feb - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 17266700 | Fulltext

Current incidence and estimated residual risk of transfusion-transmitted infections in donations made to Canadian Blood Services.

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O'Brien SF, Yi QL, Fan W, Scalia V, Kleinman SH, and Vamvakas EC

Transfusion 47(2):316-25, 2007 Feb - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 17302779 | Fulltext

Platelet transfusion and postoperative infection in cardiac surgery.

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Transfusion 47(2):352-4; author reply 354-6, 2007 Feb - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 17302785 | Fulltext

The continuing risk of transfusion-transmitted infections.

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Blajchman MA and Vamvakas EC

The New England journal of medicine 355(13):1303-5, 2006 Sep 28 - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 17005947 | Fulltext

Face-to-face interviewing in predonation screening: lack of effect on detected human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C virus infections.

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O'Brien SF, Fan W, Ram SS, Goldman M, Nair RC, Chiavetta JA, and Vamvakas EC

Transfusion 46(8):1380-7, 2006 Aug - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 16934075 | Fulltext

Pneumonia as a complication of blood product transfusion in the critically ill: transfusion-related immunomodulation (TRIM).

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Critical care medicine 34(5 Suppl):S151-9, 2006 May - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 16617260 | Fulltext

Detection of hepatitis C virus and human immunodeficiency virus-1 antibody-negative donations: Canadian Blood Services' experience with nucleic acid testing.

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O'Brien SF, Fan W, Scalia V, Goldman M, Fearon MA, and Vamvakas EC

Vox sanguinis 90(3):204, 2006 Apr - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 16507022 | Fulltext

The development of West Nile virus safety policies by Canadian blood services: guiding principles and a comparison between Canada and the United States.

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Vamvakas EC, Kleinman S, Hume H, and Sher GD

Transfusion medicine reviews 20(2):97-109, 2006 Apr - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 16565024 | Fulltext

Predictive ability of sequential surveys in determining donor loss from increasingly stringent variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease deferral policies.

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O'brien SF, Chiavetta JA, Goldman M, Fan W, Nair RC, Sher GD, and Vamvakas EC

Transfusion 46(3):461-8, 2006 Mar - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 16533291 | Fulltext

Deleterious clinical effects of transfusion immunomodulation: proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Transfusion 46(3):492-4; author reply 494-5, 2006 Mar - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 16533295 | Fulltext

Is white blood cell reduction equivalent to antibody screening in preventing transmission of cytomegalovirus by transfusion? A review of the literature and meta-analysis.

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Transfusion medicine reviews 19(3):181-99, 2005 Jul - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 16010649 | Fulltext

Implementation of donor screening for infectious agents transmitted by blood by nucleic acid technology: update to 2003.

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Coste J, Reesink HW, Engelfriet CP, Laperche S, Brown S, Busch MP, Cuijpers HT, Elgin R, Ekermo B, Epstein JS, Flesland O, Heier HE, Henn G, Hernandez JM, Hewlett IK, Hyland C,

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Vox sanguinis 88(4):289-303, 2005 May - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 15877653 | Fulltext

Evidence-based practice of transfusion medicine: is it possible and what do the words mean?.

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Transfusion medicine reviews 18(4):267-78, 2004 Oct - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 15497127 | Fulltext

Proceedings of a consensus conference: the screening of blood donors for variant CJD.

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Blajchman MA, Goldman M, Webert KE, Vamvakas EC, Hannon J, and Delage G

Transfusion medicine reviews 18(2):73-92, 2004 Apr - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 15067588 | Fulltext

White-blood-cell-containing allogeneic blood transfusion, postoperative infection and mortality: a meta-analysis of observational 'before-and-after' studies.

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Vox sanguinis 86(2):111-9, 2004 Feb - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 15023180 | Fulltext

Platelet transfusion and adverse outcomes.

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Lancet 364(9447):1736-8, 2004 - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 15541433 | Fulltext

WBC-containing allogeneic blood transfusion and mortality: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

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Transfusion 43(7):963-73, 2003 Jul - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 12823758 | Fulltext

Uses and sources of data on long-term survival after blood transfusion.

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Transfusion medicine reviews 17(3):194-208, 2003 Jul - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 12881780 | Fulltext

Ten-year survival of transfusion recipients identified by hepatitis C lookback.

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Transfusion 43(3):418-9, 2003 Mar - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 12675733 | Fulltext

Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials comparing the risk of postoperative infection between recipients of allogeneic and autologous blood transfusion.

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Vox sanguinis 83(4):339-46, 2002 Nov - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 12437521 | Fulltext

Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials investigating the risk of postoperative infection in association with white blood cell-containing allogeneic blood transfusion: the effects of the type of transfused red blood cell product and surgical setting.

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Transfusion medicine reviews 16(4):304-14, 2002 Oct - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 12415516 | Fulltext

Prospective reevaluation of the association between thrombotic diathesis and legg-perthes disease.

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Hresko MT, McDougall PA, Gorlin JB, Vamvakas EC, Kasser JR, and Neufeld EJ

The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume 84-A(9):1613-8, 2002 Sep - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 12208918 | Fulltext

Specialized therapeutic hemapheresis: present and future.

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Pineda AA and Vamvakas EC

Vox sanguinis 83 Suppl 1:41-4, 2002 Aug - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 12617101 | Fulltext

Assessment of the quality of clinical research.

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Vox sanguinis 83 Suppl 1:397-401, 2002 Aug - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 12617175 | Fulltext

Four-year survival of transfusion recipients identified by hepatitis C lookback.

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Vamvakas EC and Goldstein R

Transfusion 42(6):691-7, 2002 Jun - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 12147020 | Fulltext

Possible mechanisms of allogeneic blood transfusion-associated postoperative infection.

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Vamvakas EC

Transfusion medicine reviews 16(2):144-60, 2002 Apr - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 11941576 | Fulltext

Allogeneic blood transfusion and postoperative duration of mechanical ventilation: effects of red cell supernatant, platelet supernatant, plasma components and total transfused fluid.

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Vamvakas EC and Carven JH

Vox sanguinis 82(3):141-9, 2002 Apr - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 11952989 | Fulltext

Exposure to allogeneic plasma and risk of postoperative pneumonia and/or wound infection in coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

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Vamvakas EC and Carven JH

Transfusion 42(1):107-13, 2002 Jan - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 11896321 | Fulltext

Applications of meta-analysis in pathology practice.

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Vamvakas EC

American journal of clinical pathology 116 Suppl:S47-64, 2001 Dec - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 11993702 | Fulltext

RBC alloantibody specificity and antigen potency in Olmsted County, Minnesota.

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Winters JL, Pineda AA, Gorden LD, Bryant SC, Melton LJ, Vamvakas EC, and Moore SB

Transfusion 41(11):1413-20, 2001 Nov - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 11724988 | Fulltext

Long-term survival of transfusion recipients in Sweden, 1993.

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Transfusion 41(9):1173-6, 2001 Sep - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 11552079 | Fulltext

Allogeneic blood transfusion and postoperative duration of mechanical ventilation.

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Vamvakas EC and Carven JH

Transfusion 41(7):885-92, 2001 Jul - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 11452156 | Fulltext

Universal WBC reduction: the case for and against.

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Vamvakas EC and Blajchman MA

Transfusion 41(5):691-712, 2001 May - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 11346708 | Fulltext

Clinical and molecular basis of transfusion-induced immunomodulation: summary of the proceedings of a state-of-the-art conference.

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Blajchman MA, Dzik S, Vamvakas EC, Sweeney J, and Snyder EL

Transfusion medicine reviews 15(2):108-35, 2001 Apr - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 11309732 | Fulltext

Deleterious clinical effects of transfusion-associated immunomodulation: fact or fiction?.

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Vamvakas EC and Blajchman MA

Blood 97(5):1180-95, 2001 Mar 1 - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 11222359 | Fulltext

Meta-analysis of controlled clinical trials studying the efficacy of rHuEPO in reducing blood transfusions in the anemia of prematurity.

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Vamvakas EC and Strauss RG

Transfusion 41(3):406-15, 2001 Mar - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 11274599 | Fulltext

Autologous transfusion and other approaches to reduce allogeneic blood exposure.

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Vamvakas EC and Pineda AA

Bailliere's best practice & research. Clinical haematology 13(4):533-47, 2000 Dec - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 11102275 | Fulltext

Allogeneic blood transfusion as a risk factor for the subsequent development of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

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Vamvakas EC

Transfusion medicine reviews 14(3):258-68, 2000 Jul - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 10914420 | Fulltext

RBC transfusion and postoperative length of stay in the hospital or the intensive care unit among patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery: the effects of confounding factors.

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Vamvakas EC and Carven JH

Transfusion 40(7):832-9, 2000 Jul - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 10924612 | Fulltext

Universal WBC reduction.

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Thurer RL, Luban NL, AuBuchon JP, Silver H, McCarthy LJ, Dzik S, Stowell CP, Moore SB, Vamvakas EC, Armstrong W, Kanter MH, Jeter E, Becker J, Higgins M, Galel S, Kleinman S,

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Transfusion 40(6):751-2, 2000 Jun - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 10864999 | Fulltext

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