A survey on preoperative autologous blood donation policy in bone marrow stem cell donors in Italy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The high safety of homologous blood components, together with the introduction of the Patient Blood Management strategy, has led to the progressive abandonment of preoperative autologous blood donation (PAD) in surgery. Furthermore, recent scientific publications provide evidence about the non-usefulness of PAD in the collection of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) from bone marrow (BM), also in consideration of harvest procedure safety. Nevertheless, no conclusive studies have been published yet.

Materials and methods

Blood Establishments (BE) and Bone Marrow Collection Centers (BMCC) participated in a specific qualitative survey proposed by Italian National Blood and Transplant centers with the support of the relevant Italian Scientific Societies. The survey aimed

SUBMITTER: Del Fante C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10335345 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature