The essential physiological role of platelets in wound healing and tissue repair builds the
rationale for the use of human platelet derivatives in regenerative medicine. Abundant …

Globally, hepatitis C virus (HCV) has infected an estimated 130 million people, most of
whom are chronically infected. HCV-infected people serve as a reservoir for transmission to …

Abstract The 2017 Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Clinical Practice
Guideline on the Evaluation and Care of Living Kidney Donors is intended to assist medical …

Aims The Korean Association for the Study of the Liver (KASL) Practice Guidelines for
Management of Hepatitis C were first established in 2004, and revised in 2013, when direct …

This book grew out of a scientific review, originally published in Microbiological Reviews. It
has been updated and expanded-now citing more than 2100 references (100 pages of the …

Invasive fungal diseases (IFDs) have become major causes of morbidity and mortality
among highly immunocompromised patients. Authoritative consensus criteria to diagnose …

BACKGROUND: Nucleic acid testing (NAT) for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and
hepatitis C virus (HCV) was introduced for blood donation screening in the United States in …

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) remains a major risk of transfusion-transmitted infection due to the
pre-seroconversion window period (WP), infection with immunovariant viruses, and with …

As the safety of blood transfusion has dramati-cally improved with respect to transmission of
viral infection, one of the remaining challenges has been to accurately estimate the risk …

Over the past 20 years, there has been a major increase in the safety of the blood supply, as
demonstrated by declining rates of posttransfusion infection and reductions in estimated …