Departments

• Hemolytic transfusion reaction due to anti JKA: A case study.
• The prevalence of secretor status and co-expression of Lewis antigen in voluntary blood donors.
• Pregnancy Induced Hemolytic Anemia in an Antenatal Mother: A Rare Case Report.
• Incompatible minor crossmatch due to T-transformed red cells.
• Para- Bombay phenotype: A rare case report.
• Anti-Lewis antibody in Pregnancy.
• Hemolytic Disease of Newborn due to anti-c antibody in an RhD positive mother: A case report.
• Evaluation of the Quality of Fresh Frozen Plasma and refrozen thawed Fresh Frozen Plasma: A Prospective study.
• Cold Agglutinin Disease: How Tube Technique Helped us in Resolving Discrepancy.
• Evaluation of Our Experience on Arterial Puncture Phlebotomy in Whole Blood Donation Practice.
• Prevalence of Rh Antigens among Voluntary Blood Donors in Chennai.
• A Study on Prevalence of Weak D Antigen Among Voluntary Blood Donors in Chennai.
• Causes and Consequences of Deferral among Voluntary Blood Donors: A Retrospective study.
• “Requirement of Grey Zone” – Evaluation as an Additional Step towards Blood Safety: A Retrospective study.
• TTI and Its Association with Blood Groups among Voluntary Blood Donors: A Retrospective study.
• Packed RBC Utilization Pattern in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital.
• Maternal Antibody Titre and Fetal Outcome.
• Screening for Syphilis on Samples Received for EQAS and Voluntary Blood Donors: A Comparative study between RPR and ELISA.
• Evaluation of Red Blood Cell Alloimmunization in Pregnant Women: A Retrospective study
• Quantification of D-Dimer in Assessing the Maternal and Neonatal Outcome in Preeclampsia Patients.
• Frequency of “Unexpected Antibodies” among the Antenatal Mothers in a Regional Blood Centre” Factors Influencing the Engraftment of Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Transplantation in Various Hematological Disorders.
• Blood Donor Selection and Deferral Pattern as an Important Tool for Blood Safety in a Regional Blood Centre.
• Performance Analysis of EQAS in Tti as Participating Laboratory
• Preoperative Variables Predicting the Transfusion of Red Blood Cell Requirements in Liver Transplant Recipients.
• A Cross Sectional study to Analyse the Deferral Pattern among Voluntary Blood Donors in a Regional Blood Centre.
• Correlation of positive direct Antiglobulin test and clinical significance in regional reference laboratory.
• Pre harvest CD-34 cell count – a tool for prediction of need for plerixafor in autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
• A case series of anti-M antibodies: Experience in an immunohaematological regional referral centre.

The following Papers / Posters were presented in the Annual Conference of ISBTI in the years 2009 to 2011. These articles were also published in the PubMed Indexed “Asian Journal of Transfusion Science” in the years 2009 and 2010.

• Evaluation of Blood Donor Deferral causes. (2009)
• Experience in detection of alloantibodies by Gel method and Conventional Tube method in multi-transfused Thalassemic patients. (2009)
• Seroprevalence of Hepatitis B Core antibody among voluntary blood donors in Chennai. (2009)
• Distribution of ABO and Rh blood groups among the blood donors. (2009)
• Study on Intention and behavioral factors among voluntary blood donors: A Cross sectional study. (2009)
• Importance of reverse blood grouping in Rh negative Bombay Blood group ­multipara: A case report. (2010)
• External quality assessment scheme in red blood cell serology: Our Experience. (2010)
• Role of blood transfusion service in tissue banking. (2010)
• Efficacy of counseling for seropositive donors. (2010)
• Adverse reactions of blood donation in voluntary donors. (2010)
• Impact of blood donation on voluntary donors. (2010)
• Phenotyping of rare blood group antigens. (2010)
• Haemoglobin based Oxygen carriers. (2010)
• Comparison of DAT Using Tube And Gel Technique in Haemato- Oncology Patients. (2011)
• Cryopreservation of Blood Products. (2011)
• Role Of HLA in Stem Cell Transplantation. (2011)
• Proteomics: Applications in Transfusion Medicine. (2011)
• Pathogen Inactivation Methods of Blood Component. (2011)
• Is it Necessary to Do Coombs Cross Match following Antibody Screening in Indian Scenario. (2011)
• Role of Transfusion Medicine in Disaster Management. (2011)
• Role of skin disinfectants in prevention of bacterial Contamination in platelet concentrates. (2011)
• Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in Guillain-Barré syndromes. (2011)

The following Papers / Posters were presented in the Annual Conference of ISTM in the year 2012. These articles were also published in the PubMed Indexed “Asian Journal of Transfusion Science”.

• Accidental Arterial Puncture during Phlebotomy: A Rare Case Report.
• Aint, a rare subgroup of A blood group: A Case report.
• Importance of “Levey- Jenning chart” in quality control of TTI Screening.
• Changing trends in Seroprevalence of Transfusion Transmissible Hepatitis among Voluntary Blood Donors
• Hemovigilance: A Case Report of a ‘Near Miss’ Event in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital
• Interpretation of variable strength of agglutination reactions with anti-D antisera.
• Prevalence of Red cell Antibodies in Antenatal Mothers.

The following Papers / Posters have been presented in Annual Conference of ISTM. These articles shall be published in the PubMed Indexed “Asian Journal of Transfusion Science” Volume. 8, supplement 1, April 2014 edition.

• A Study of Serum Ferritin Levels Among Voluntary Blood Donors.
• To Determine the Bacterial Contamination in Packed Red Blood Cell Units: A Prospective Study.
• Evaluation of the Quality and extension of shelf life of Packed red blood cells: A Prospective study.
• Serious Hazard of Transfusion Reaction: A Case Report.
• Comparison of haemoglobin Levels in Blood donors by Three Different methods: A Prospective study.

The following Papers / Posters have been presented in Annual Conference of ISTM from 14th to 16th November 2014.

• Age and Gender Distribution of Voluntary Blood Donors.
• Technical Difficulties in Phlebotomy and Blood Inventory Loss.
• Blood Utilization Management in a Transfusion Service.
• Third Party Quality Control: Our Experience with Virotrol.
• TTI Screening Outcome – Safety Concern for Phlebotomist
• BrdU: An In Vivo Marker of Stem Cell Replication.
• Anti – CD47: A Miracle Cure for Cancer?

The following Papers / Posters were presented in the Annual Conference of ISTM in the year 2015. These articles were also published in the PubMed Indexed “Asian Journal of Transfusion Science”.

• Insight into Disparity between number of projected blood donors vs actual blood units collected in outdoor blood donation camp setup-An observational study.
• Distribution of ABO and Rh blood group system among voluntary blood donors in Chennai.
• Study of donor adverse reactions-Frequency, Predisposing Factors and Preventive measures.
• Proficiency Testing-External Samples for Internal Assesment.
• Tube Technique – Still a Gold Standard in Resolving Group Discrepancy.
• Alloimunisation to both Rh and Kidd system antigens(anti-c and anti-JKA) in a young Thalasemic Patient: A case report.
• Deferred Donors – Where are we missing?.
• Grey Zone Sample Retesting: Does it enhance the Scope of blood Safety?.
• A Study on the Blood Transfusion Practice in the First Trimester of Pregnancy.
• A Study on the Blood Transfusion Practice in the Ectopic Pregnancy Management.
• Visual inspection – an important parameter in the quality control of blood components.

The following Papers / Posters were presented in the Annual Conference of ISTM in the year 2016. These articles were also published in the PubMed Indexed “Asian Journal of Transfusion Science”.

• Transition from whole blood to plateletpheresis donation among voluntary blood donors – observational study.
• Evaluation of Anti- A and Anti – B titres among Group ‘O’ voluntary blood donors.
• Comparison of Activated partial thromboplastin time, Prothrombin time & Fibrinogen levels in FFP on freezing and thawing of plasma.
• Awareness about Transfusion Transmitted Infection among repeat voluntary blood donors.
• A survey of attitude of obstetricians and anaesthesiologists towards blood transfusion in anaemic mothers planned for caeserean section.
• Study on correlation between adverse reactions and phlebotomy site among voluntary blood donors.
• A scarce resource platelet concentrates – an audit.

The following Papers / Posters were presented in the Annual Conference of ISTM in the year 2017. These articles were also published in the PubMed Indexed “Asian Journal of Transfusion Science”.

• Impact of ABO blood groups on adverse maternal outcome.
• Retrospective analysis of alloimmunisation among thalassemic children at regional blood bank laboratory.
• Antenatal maternal serum IAT titre and periodic fetal monitoring prior to IUT- the useful predictors of fetal outcome.
• Comparative analysis of Hb estimation in cell counter and CuSo4 specific gravity method in deferred blood donors.
• Predonation water intake with outcome on donor adverse reactions.
• A study of blood component utilization in a tertiary care hospital.
• Awareness about Transfusion Transmitted Infection among repeat voluntary blood donors .Quality Indicator (QI) –TTI percentage in regional blood bank centre.
• A survey of attitude of obstetricians and anesthesiologists towards blood transfusion in anaemic mothers planned for cesarean section. A study on analysis of deferred blood donors in a regional blood bank centre.
• Substantial role of changes during plateletpheresis to avert adverse reactions.

The following Papers / Posters were presented in the Annual Conference of ISTM in the year 2018. These articles were also published in the PubMed Indexed “Asian Journal of Transfusion Science”.

• Presentation of Anti-M at wide thermal amplitude and its clinical / laboratory significance.
• Donor Haemovigilance – a retrospective study.
• Incidence of Fibrinolysis and efficacy of Tranexamic Acid in liver transplant patients.
• Preoperative predictive factors and utilization of blood components in liver transplant patients.
• A retrospective analysis of appropriate utilization of Fresh Frozen Plasma in a tertiary care hospital with reference to evidence based guidelines.
• Discordant results observed between ELISA and Rapid Card tests for quality control of HIV, HBsAg & HCV screening kits.
• Single donor platelets – collection criteria, quality control and utilization – 1 year observational study.
• Prevalence of TTI among voluntary blood donors with different ABO, Rh and Bombay blood group systems.
• Role of predonation motivation and education about voluntary blood donation” in retention of blood donors.
• Response rate of seroreactive blood donors after notification.
• Effect of predonation intake of water and ORS on donor adverse reaction – a comparative study.
• Awareness of voluntary blood donation among first year undergraduate college students in Chennai.

The following Papers / Posters were presented in the Annual Conference of ISTM in the year 2019. These articles were also published in the PubMed Indexed “Asian Journal of Transfusion Science”.

• Evaluation of Autoimmune hemolytic anemia and its clinical significance
• Partial DVI phenotype – immunohematological workup and its clinical importance
• Quality Indicators: a tool for continuous performance improvement.
• Blood component utilization in obstetric hemorrhage.
• Effect of grey zone retesting in enhancing blood safety – a retrospective study.
• Impact of donor variables on single donor platelet collection efficiency
• A rare case of Para Bombay phenotype
• Impact of lower limit predonation blood pressure on vasovagal reaction
• Quantitative analysis of female deferred donors owing to low hemoglobin: are we missing out female donors?
• Vein score tool to assess donor vein suitability for blood donation
• Comparison of platelet yield obtained from fresh and stored buffy coated method
• Impact of predonation counselling on TTI

The following Papers / Posters were presented in the ISBTI National Level Virtual Conference held on February 2021

• Intrauterine transfusion and its outcome
• Data logger in blood bank-Impact in cold chain Maintenance
• Safety and efficacy of therapeutic plasma exchange in Autoimmune neurological disorders
• Blood group discrepancy in acute leukemia -a case report
• Red cell alloimmunisation &its significance – 2 year study in regional referral center
• Therapeutic effect of irradiated apheresis granulocytes in Hemato-oncology patients – one year study from tertiary care centre
• A study on acute adverse reactions of blood transfusion in a tertiary care centre
• Blood donor selection and deferral pattern ; an important tool for blood safety
• A typology of blood donor motivation in a regional centre
• Inventory management during covid-19 at a regional blood centre

The following Papers / Posters were presented in the Annual Conference of ISTM in the year 2021. These articles were also published in the PubMed Indexed “Asian Journal of Transfusion Science”.

• Utilisation of Blood and Components in A Tertiary Care Centre.
• Study of Prevalence of Autoimmune Hemolytic Anaemia.
• Seroprevalence of Transfusion Transmitted Infections among blood donors at a Tertiary Care Blood Centre in Chennai
• Anti K antibody – Case report
• Blood donors’ perspectives and expectations on blood donation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• The following papers/posters were presented in the ISBTI National Level Virtual Conference held on March 2022
• Retrospective Analysis Of Grouping Discrepancies In A Tertiary Care Centre
• High Blood Pressure – A Deferral Criteria Analysis Among Young Voluntary Blood Donors

The following Papers / Posters were presented in the Annual Conference of ISTM in the year 2022. These articles were also published in the PubMed Indexed “Asian Journal of Transfusion Science”.

• Trends of blood donation during Covid-19 pandemic.
• Adverse donor reactions (ADR) to whole blood donation in voluntary blood donors
• Bombay Rh Negative in pregnant women
• Response rate of Seropositive donors.
• Blood donor selection and deferral pattern
• Hemolytic manifestations of a newborn to multiparous woman with ABO & Rh antibodies – a case report.