Progress and Challenges in Transfusion Medicine, Hemostasis, and Hemotherapy

Download or read book Progress and Challenges in Transfusion Medicine, Hemostasis, and Hemotherapy written by R. E. Scharf and published by Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern transfusion medicine is sophisticated hemotherapy. Cellular and humoral blood components can be relevant in virtually every disease, either as a primary determinant in pathophysiology or as a victim of collateral damage, e.g. during treatment with cytostatic drugs, or as crucial substrates in replacement and hemostasis-navigated hemotherapy. With its interdisciplinary approach modern hemotherapy is a paragon of translational research bridging the bench-to-bedside gap in biomedicine. The state-of-the-art contributions collected here aim to stimulate lively discussions ' not only among blood center professionals but also with blood and vascular biologists, hematologists, immunologists, anesthesiologists, intensive care specialists, surgeons, cardiologists, nephrologists, rheumatologists, and pulmonary and infectious disease specialists.