Our Research Publications

Updated August 2024

Title Authors Year Journal Link to Article Intended Audience Purpose
Contamination of platelet concentrates with Staphylococcus aureus induces significant modulations in platelet functionality Yousuf B, Pasha R, Pineault N, Ramirez-Arcos S 2022 Vox Sang View Researchers Basic research
The Missing Pieces to the Cold-Stored Platelet Puzzle Zhao H, Devine DV 2022 Int J Mol Sci View Researchers Basic research
Use of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing to improve chimeric antigen-receptor T cell therapy: A systematic review and meta-analysis of preclinical studies Maganti HB, Kirkham AM, Bailey AJM, Shorr R, Kekre N, Pineault N, Allan DS 2022 Cytotherapy View Researchers Clinical research
The international experience of bacterial screen testing of platelet components with automated microbial detection systems: An update Kamel H, Ramirez-Arcos S, McDonald C, ISBT Transfusion-Transmitted Infectious Disease Bacterial Working Party Bacterial Subgroup 2022 Vox Sang View Researchers Benchmarking and standard setting
Vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT): Update on diagnosis and management considering different resources Greinacher A, Langer F, Makris M, Pai M, Pavord S, Tran H, Warkentin TE 2022 J Thromb Haemost View Health care providers Clinical research
Cytomegalovirus Seropositivity in Older Adults Changes the T Cell Repertoire but Does Not Prevent Antibody or Cellular Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Breznik JA, Huynh A, Zhang A, Bilaver L, Bhakta H, Stacey HD, Ang JC, Bramson JL, Nazy I, Miller MS, Denburg J, Costa AP, Bowdish DME 2022 J Immunol View Health care providers Clinical research
THP-1 cells transduced with CD16A utilize Fcγ receptor I and III in the phagocytosis of IgG-sensitized human erythrocytes and platelets Gil Gonzalez L, Fernandez-Marrero Y, Norris PAA, Tawhidi Z, Shan Y, Cruz-Leal Y, Won KD, Frias-Boligan K, Branch DR, Lazarus AH 2022 PLoS One View Researchers Basic research
ABO O blood group as a risk factor for platelet reactivity in heparin-induced thrombocytopenia Karnes JH, Rollin J, Giles JB, Martinez KL, Steiner HE, Shaffer CM, Momozawa Y, Inai C, Bombin A, Shi M, Mosley JD, Stanaway I, Selleng K, Thiele T, Mushiroda T, Pouplard C, Heddle NM, Kubo M, Phillips EJ, Warkentin TE, Gruel Y, Greinacher A, Roden DM 2022 Blood View Researchers Basic research
Preparing small-dose red cell concentrates (RCCs) for neonatal and pediatric transfusions: Impact of RCC volume, storage, and irradiation Olafson C, William N, Howell A, Beaudin L, Gill B, Clarke G, Stephens S, Lopes-Carvalho D, Lane D, Schubert P, McTaggart K, Acker JP 2022 Transfusion View Researchers New or improved product or process
Circular of information for the use of human blood components: Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells (HPC), Cord Blood Stewart T 2022 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Circulaire d'information utilisation de composants sanguins humains: Plaquettes Stewart T 2022 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Cost-effectiveness of noninvasive fetal RhD blood group genotyping in nonalloimmunized and alloimmunized pregnancies Gajic-Veljanoski O, Li C, Schaink AK, Guo J, Shehata N, Charames GS, de Vrijer B, Clarke G, Pechlivanoglou P, Okun N, Kandel R, Dooley J, Higgins C, Ng V, Sikich N 2022 Transfusion View Researchers Clinical research
HIV residual risk in Canada for apheresis source plasma donation without deferral for men who have sex with men Aubé E, Lewin A, O'Brien SF, Grégoire Y, Pillonel J, Steele WR, Custer B, Davison KL, Germain M, Seed CR, Camirand Lemyre F, the Surveillance RA, Policy Subgroup of the ISBT Transfusion Transmitted Infectious Diseases Working Party 2022 Vox Sang View Blood operators MSM research
The Relationship Between Anti-Spike SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Levels and Risk of Breakthrough COVID-19 Among Fully Vaccinated Adults Asamoah-Boaheng M, Goldfarb DM, Karim ME, O’Brien SF, Wall N, Drews SJ, Barakauskas V, Jassem AN, Grunau B 2022 J Infect Dis View Researchers Clinical research
HIV incidence and related risks among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver: Informing blood donor selection criteria in Canada Lambert G, Cox J, Fourmigue A, Dvorakova M, Apelian H, Moodie EEM, Grace D, Skakoon-Sparling S, Moore DM, Lachowsky N, Jollimore J, Lal A, Parlette A, Hart TA 2022 Transfusion View Researchers MSM research
Chapter 5. Concentrates for hemostatic disorders and hereditary angioedema Poon MC, Goodyear D, Rydz N, Lee A 2022 Clinical Guide to Transfusion View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Multicenter evaluation of the IL-3-pSTAT5 assay to assess the potency of cryopreserved stem cells from cord blood units: The BEST Collaborative study Trépanier P, Fournier D, Simard C, Fontaine MJ, Stroncek D, Takanashi M, McKenna D, Schwartz J, Tanhehco YC, Reems J-A, Torrents S, Kogler G, Liedtke S, Giroux M, Holovati JL, Louis I, Prasath A, Pineault N, Bazin R, The Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion Collaborative 2022 Transfusion View Researchers Benchmarking and standard setting
Impacts of COVID-19 and elective surgery cancellations on platelet supply and utilization in the Canadian Province of British Columbia Shopsowitz KE, Lim C, Shih AW, Fishbane N, Berry BR, Bigham M, Petraszko T, Trudeau J, Wyatt M, Yan MTS, Morrison D 2022 Vox Sang View Blood operators Benchmarking and standard setting
SARS-CoV-2 Virus-Like Particle Neutralizing Capacity in Blood Donors Depends on Serological Profile and Donor-Declared SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination History Drews SJ, Hu Q, Samson R, Abe KT, Rathod B, Colwill K, Gingras A-C, Yi Q-L, O’Brien SF, Mostafa HH 2022 Microbiol Spectr View Researchers Clinical research
Chapitre 19. Plaquettes à teneur réduite en agents pathogènes Blais-Normandin I, Tordon B, Anani W, Ning S 2022 Guide de la pratique transfusionnelle View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
National Blood Foundation 2021 Research and Development summit: Discovery, innovation, and challenges in advancing blood and biotherapies Holmberg JA, Henry SM, Burnouf T, Devine D, Marschner S, Boothby TC, Burger SR, Chou ST, Custer B, Blumberg N, Siegel DL, Spitalnik SL 2022 Transfusion View Researchers Benchmarking and standard setting
Development and internal validation of a clinical prediction model for the diagnosis of immune thrombocytopenia Li N, Mahamad S, Parpia S, Iorio A, Foroutan F, Heddle NM, Hsia CC, Sholzberg M, Rimmer E, Shivakumar S, Sun HL, Refaei M, Hamm C, Arnold DM 2022 J Thromb Haemost View Researchers New or improved product or process
Surveillance report O'Brien SF 2022 Blood.ca website View Blood operators Benchmarking and standard setting
Immunospecific analysis of in vitro and ex vivo surface-immobilized protein complex Sask KN, Thong B, Goodarzynejad N, Berry LR, Chan AKC 2022 Biointerphases View Researchers Basic research
GRADE Guidance 34: update on rating imprecision using a minimally contextualized approach Zeng L, Brignardello-Petersen R, Hultcrantz M, Mustafa RA, Murad MH, Iorio A, Traversy G, Akl EA, Mayer M, Schünemann HJ, Guyatt GH 2022 J Clin Epidemiol View Researchers Clinical research
Massive Hemorrhage Protocol: Quality Metrics Portal Pilot Thompson T, Callum J 2022 Ontario Regional Blood Coordinating Network February 2022 Newsletter View Health care providers Clinical research
Survey of blood centre readiness regarding removal of DEHP from blood bag sets: The BEST Collaborative Study Razatos A, Acker JP, de Korte D, Bégué S, Noorman F, Doyle B, Zia M, Min K, The Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion Collaborative 2022 Vox Sang View Researchers New or improved product or process
International Forum on the Management of Major Haemorrhage: Responses Green L, Stanworth S, McQuilten Z, Lin V, Tucker H, Jackson B, Badawi M, Hindawi S, Chaurasia R, Patidar G, Pandey HC, Fasola F, Miyata S, Matsumoto M, Matsushita T, Rahimi-Levene N, Peer V, Pavenski K, Callum J, Thompson T, Murphy M, Staves J, Maegele M, Abeyakoon C, Rushford K, Wood E, Nuñez MA, Mellado S, Saa E, Triyono T, Pratomo B, Apelseth TO, Dunbar N 2022 Vox Sang View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
International survey of strategies to mitigate transfusion-transmitted Trypanosoma cruzi in non-endemic countries, 2016–2018 Crowder LA, Wendel S, Bloch EM, O'Brien SF, Delage G, Sauleda S, Leiby DA, for the WP-TTID Subgroup on Parasites 2022 Vox Sang View Researchers Benchmarking and standard setting
(NZW × BXSB) F1 male mice: An unusual, severe and fatal mouse model of lupus erythematosus Almizraq RJ, Frias Boligan K, Loriamini M, McKerlie C, Branch DR 2022 Front Immunol View Researchers Basic research
Genome-wide association study of platelet factor 4/heparin antibodies in heparin-induced thrombocytopenia Giles JB, Steiner HE, Rollin J, Shaffer CM, Momozawa Y, Mushiroda T, Inai C, Selleng K, Thiele T, Pouplard C, Heddle NM, Kubo M, Miller EC, Martinez KL, Phillips EJ, Warkentin TE, Gruel Y, Greinacher A, Roden DM, Karnes JH 2022 Blood Adv View Researchers Basic research
Plasma transfusion practices: A multicentre electronic audit Khandelwal A, Minuk L, Liu Y, Arnold DM, Heddle NM, Barty R, Hsia C, Solh Z, Shehata N, Thompson T, Tinmouth A, Perelman I, Skeate R, Kron AT, Callum J 2022 Vox Sang View Health care providers Clinical research
Circular of information for the use of human blood components: Whole Blood Stewart T 2022 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) World Impact Survey (I-WISh): Impact of ITP on health-related quality of life Cooper N, Kruse A, Kruse C, Watson S, Morgan M, Provan D, Ghanima W, Arnold DM, Tomiyama Y, Santoro C, Michel M, Laborde S, Lovrencic B, Hou M, Bailey T, Taylor-Stokes G, Haenig J, Bussel JB 2021 Am J Hematol View Researchers Clinical research
An open-source python library for detection of known and novel Kell, Duffy and Kidd variants from exome sequencing Montemayor C, Simone A, Long J, Montemayor O, Delvadia B, Rivera R, Lewis KL, Shahsavari S, Gandla D, Dura K, Krishnan US, Wendzel NC, Elavia N, Grissom S, Karagianni P, Bueno M, Loy D, Cacanindin R, McLaughlin S, Tynuv M, Brunker PAR, Roback J, Adams S, Smith H, Biesecker L, Klein HG 2021 Vox Sang View Health care providers New or improved product or process
Transfusion-related Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection: A multicenter prospective cohort study among pediatric recipients of hematopoietic stem cell transplants (TREASuRE study) Enok Bonong PR, Buteau C, Delage G, Tanner JE, Lacroix J, Duval M, Laporte L, Tucci M, Robitaille N, Spinella PC, Cuvelier G, Vercauteren S, Lewis V, Fearon M, Drews SJ, Alfieri C, Trottier H 2021 Transfusion View Health care providers Clinical research
Editorial on Thaler et al. long-term follow-up after successful treatment of vaccine-induced prothrombotic immune thrombocytopenia. Thromb Res 2021 in press Warkentin TE, Pai M 2021 Thromb Res View Researchers Clinical research
Complete Genome Sequence of Staphylococcus aureus CI/BAC/25/13/W, Isolated from Contaminated Platelet Concentrates in England Paredes C, Chi SI, Flint A, Weedmark K, McDonald C, Bearne J, Ramirez-Arcos S, Pagotto F 2021 Microbiol Resour Announc View Researchers Benchmarking and standard setting
Response to ‘Adverse cardiac outcomes in patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors’ Leong D, Hillis C, Aghel N, Pond G, Seow H 2021 Heart View Researchers Clinical research
Performance characteristics of platelet autoantibody testing for the diagnosis of immune thrombocytopenia using strict clinical criteria Gabe C, Sirotich E, Li N, Ivetic N, Nazy I, Smith J, Kelton JG, Arnold DM 2021 Br J Haematol View Health care providers Clinical research
Transfusion of a platelet pool contaminated with exotoxin-producing Staphylococcus aureus: a case report Chi SI, Kumaran D, Zeller M, Ramirez-Arcos S 2021 Ann Blood View Researchers Clinical research
Comparison of single subject and population-based pharmacokinetics for optimizing prophylaxis with simoctocog alfa in patients with haemophilia A Astermark J, Olsson A, Chelle P, Täckström K, Walger M, Magnusson M, Iorio A 2021 Haemophilia View Researchers Clinical research
American Society of Hematology 2021 guidelines on the use of anticoagulation for thromboprophylaxis in patients with COVID-19 Cuker A, Tseng EK, Nieuwlaat R, Angchaisuksiri P, Blair C, Dane K, Davila J, DeSancho MT, Diuguid D, Griffin DO, Kahn SR, Klok FA, Lee AI, Neumann I, Pai A, Pai M, Righini M, Sanfilippo KM, Siegal D, Skara M, Touri K, E AA, Bou Akl I, Boulos M, Brignardello-Petersen R, Charide R, Chan M, Dearness K, Darzi AJ, Kolb P, Colunga-Lozano LE, Mansour R, Morgano GP, Morsi RZ, Noori A, Piggott T, Qiu Y, Roldan Y, Schünemann F, Stevens A, Solo K, Ventresca M, Wiercioch W, Mustafa RA, Schünemann HJ 2021 Blood Adv View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Circulaire d'information utilisation de composants sanguins humains: Culot globulaire partiellement déleucocyté (PD) Jenkins C 2021 Blood.ca website Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Current and Future Perspectives for the Cryopreservation of Cord Blood Stem Cells Jahan S, Kaushal R, Pasha R, Pineault N 2021 Transfus Med Rev View Researchers New or improved product or process
SCAR: The high-prevalence antigen 013.008 in the Scianna blood group system Srivastava K, Albasri J, Alsuhaibani OM, Aljasem HA, Bueno MU, Antonacci T, Branch DR, Denomme GA, Flegel WA 2021 Transfusion View Researchers Basic research
Recognizing, managing and reporting vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia Sholzberg M, Arnold DM, Laupacis A 2021 CMAJ View Health care providers Clinical research
Anti-inflammatory activity of CD44 antibodies in murine immune thrombocytopenia is mediated by Fc? receptor inhibition Norris PAA, Kaur G, Khan R, Zhu G, Ni H, Lazarus AH 2021 Blood View Researchers Basic research
Impact of COVID-19 on blood donation in Canada Khandelwal A 2021 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) Gupta A, Yan M 2021 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting