Brinda Kakkar, Joseph Philip, Rajeevinder Singh Mallhi
{"title":"Comparative evaluation of rapid plasma reagin and ELISA with Treponema pallidum hemagglutination assay for the detection of syphilis in blood donors: a single center experience.","authors":"Brinda Kakkar, Joseph Philip, Rajeevinder Singh Mallhi","doi":"10.1016/j.htct.2024.01.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.htct.2024.01.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>The prime responsibility of blood transfusion services in India is to provide safe blood. The donated blood is tested for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), malaria and syphilis. In India, the screening of donated blood for syphilis is performed by rapid plasma reagin (RPR) or venereal disease research laboratory (VDRL), whereas the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends screening of syphilis in blood donors by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of RPR and ELISA with the Treponema pallidum hemagglutination assay (TPHA - the gold standard) for the detection of syphilis in blood donors.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this cross-sectional study, 1524 consecutive whole blood donors were screened from April to October 2022. All blood samples collected during the study period were tested by RPR, ELISA and the TPHA and the results obtained were compared.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The seroprevalence of syphilis in blood donors in this study was 0.06% by RPR and 0.72% by ELISA and TPHA. On considering ELISA and the TPHA as the gold standard, ELISA had comparable sensitivity (100%), a higher specificity (100% vs. 99.34%), a higher positive predictive value (PPV - 100% vs. 9.1%) and no biological false positive/false negative results (0 vs. 10 false negatives) when compared to RPR.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>ELISA performed better as a screening assay than RPR in the detection of syphilis in blood donors, which is in agreement with the WHO recommendations for syphilis testing in blood donors with low prevalence.</p>","PeriodicalId":94026,"journal":{"name":"Hematology, transfusion and cell therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140013800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pediatric autoimmune hemolytic anemia: A single-center retrospective study.","authors":"Aline Sayuri Sakamoto, Fernanda Silva Sequeira, Bruna Paccola Blanco, Marlene Pereira Garanito","doi":"10.1016/j.htct.2023.12.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.htct.2023.12.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) is a rare, life-threatening disease in pediatrics. This article describes the clinical features, diagnostic workup, treatment and outcome in patients with AIHA.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Medical charts of under 18-year-old patients with AIHA treated at a tertiary Brazilian institution from 2006 to 2021 were retrospectively reviewed. Data analysis was primarily descriptive, using medians, interquartile ranges, and categorical variables presented as absolute frequencies.</p><p><strong>Main results: </strong>Twenty-four patients (14 female, 10 male) were evaluated in this study. The median age at diagnosis was 5.99 years (range: 0.25-17.1 years) and the median hemoglobin level was 4.85 g/dL (range: 4.17-5.57 g/dL). Most had warm antibodies (83.3 %). Twelve patients (50 %) had known underlining diseases, four (16.6 %) presented with AIHA concomitant with acute infectious diseases and three (12.5 %) had an undetermined post-vaccine association. Steroids and intravenous immunoglobulin were first-line therapy in 23 cases. Seven patients (29.1 %) required second and third-line treatments (rituximab, cyclophosphamide and splenectomy). The median follow-up period was 4.4 years (range: 1.0-6.7 years). Thirteen patients (54.1 %) were discharged, five cases (20.8 %) were lost to follow-up and no patient died. The median age for the six remaining patients was 11.53 years (8.5-14.7) with all of them having complete responses with no further therapies.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Most cases of AIHA are secondary to an underlying systemic disease or have a possible correlation with infections/vaccines and respond to steroids. The second and third-line therapies for refractory and relapse cases remain a dilemma. A prospective, multicenter study is essential to address the best therapeutic combinations.</p>","PeriodicalId":94026,"journal":{"name":"Hematology, transfusion and cell therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139944811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantitative detection of T315I mutations of BCR::ABL1 using digital droplet polymerase chain reaction.","authors":"Huijun Mu, Jian Zou, Haiping Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.htct.2023.12.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.htct.2023.12.007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>T315I mutations of the BCR::ABL1 gene lead to resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). This study evaluated the performance of digital droplet polymerase chain reaction (ddPCR) in quantifying T315I mutations and their frequency in Philadelphia chromosome (Ph) positive hematological patients.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The course of disease and BCR::ABL1 fusion transcripts (e13a2, e14a2 and e1a2) were retrospectively reviewed in 21 patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and 85 patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). T315I mutation analysis was carried out using ddPCR and the limit of detection was assessed using mutant T315I DNA at varying variant allele fractions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>T315I mutations were found in two ALL patients and one CML patient without remission in molecular biology and with mutation burdens of 29.20%, 40.85%, and 3.00%, respectively. The mutation burden of ALL patients was higher than that of CML patients, but there was no significant difference between the two (p-value = 0.0536). The test's limit of detection was 0.02% with a correlation coefficient greater than 0.99 between the expected and actual detection abundances.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>T315I mutations have a high incidence in Ph-positive ALL patients even if the course of disease is short. In molecular biology, T315I mutation detection is indicated for CML patients not in remission.</p>","PeriodicalId":94026,"journal":{"name":"Hematology, transfusion and cell therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139934768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gabriela Araujo de Abreu, Duaran Lopes de Sousa, Suzzy Maria Carvalho Dantas, Alice Maria Costa Martins, T. L. Sampaio, R. Lemes
{"title":"Influence of hydroxyurea on tubular phosphate handling in sickle cell nephropathy","authors":"Gabriela Araujo de Abreu, Duaran Lopes de Sousa, Suzzy Maria Carvalho Dantas, Alice Maria Costa Martins, T. L. Sampaio, R. Lemes","doi":"10.1016/j.htct.2023.11.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.htct.2023.11.015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94026,"journal":{"name":"Hematology, transfusion and cell therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139878031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gabriela Araujo de Abreu, Duaran Lopes de Sousa, Suzzy Maria Carvalho Dantas, Alice Maria Costa Martins, T. L. Sampaio, R. Lemes
{"title":"Influence of hydroxyurea on tubular phosphate handling in sickle cell nephropathy","authors":"Gabriela Araujo de Abreu, Duaran Lopes de Sousa, Suzzy Maria Carvalho Dantas, Alice Maria Costa Martins, T. L. Sampaio, R. Lemes","doi":"10.1016/j.htct.2023.11.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.htct.2023.11.015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94026,"journal":{"name":"Hematology, transfusion and cell therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139818365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Soumya Pandey, Akul Shrivastava, Y. Harville, Michele Cottler-Fox, T. Harville
{"title":"HLA-DR-DQ associations, combined with PLASMIC score, are reliable predictors of acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (aTTP) and aid in differentiating aTTP from other thrombotic microangiopathies","authors":"Soumya Pandey, Akul Shrivastava, Y. Harville, Michele Cottler-Fox, T. Harville","doi":"10.1016/j.htct.2023.11.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.htct.2023.11.016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94026,"journal":{"name":"Hematology, transfusion and cell therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139829069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Soumya Pandey, Akul Shrivastava, Y. Harville, Michele Cottler-Fox, T. Harville
{"title":"HLA-DR-DQ associations, combined with PLASMIC score, are reliable predictors of acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (aTTP) and aid in differentiating aTTP from other thrombotic microangiopathies","authors":"Soumya Pandey, Akul Shrivastava, Y. Harville, Michele Cottler-Fox, T. Harville","doi":"10.1016/j.htct.2023.11.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.htct.2023.11.016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94026,"journal":{"name":"Hematology, transfusion and cell therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139888795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anti-PF4 antibodies and their relationship with COVID infection","authors":"Chieh Yang, Irene Wang, Akshit Chitkara, Jibin Swankutty, Rushin Patel, Samir V Kubba","doi":"10.1016/j.htct.2023.11.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.htct.2023.11.012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94026,"journal":{"name":"Hematology, transfusion and cell therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139892698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
João Carlos de Campos Guerra, Michele Jaures, Roseny dos Reis Rodrigues, A. Cypriano, D. Malheiro, Anna Carolina Batista Dantas, Fernanda Paulino Fernandes, Neila Maria Marques Negrini, V. Teich
{"title":"Hemorrhagic code protocol, a successful case in the patient blood management model for patients with severe hemorrhages","authors":"João Carlos de Campos Guerra, Michele Jaures, Roseny dos Reis Rodrigues, A. Cypriano, D. Malheiro, Anna Carolina Batista Dantas, Fernanda Paulino Fernandes, Neila Maria Marques Negrini, V. Teich","doi":"10.1016/j.htct.2024.01.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.htct.2024.01.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94026,"journal":{"name":"Hematology, transfusion and cell therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139826614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. B. Schneider, C. L. P. de Araujo, Harryson Wings Godoy dos Santos, Simone Lima, Maicon Falavigna, D. Pachito
{"title":"Epidemiology, patient journey and unmet needs related to hemophilia in Brazil: a scoping review with evidence map","authors":"N. B. Schneider, C. L. P. de Araujo, Harryson Wings Godoy dos Santos, Simone Lima, Maicon Falavigna, D. Pachito","doi":"10.1016/j.htct.2023.12.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.htct.2023.12.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94026,"journal":{"name":"Hematology, transfusion and cell therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139831674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}