Neil Blumberg

Transfusion Medicine/Blood Bank, University of Rochester Medical Center, United States of America

Neil Blumberg

Academic positions:
- Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
- Director of Clinical Laboratories and the Blood Bank

All industry positions (in last five years):

Research interests:
Morbidity and mortality in AML: the role of blood transfusion

Prof. Blumberg's laboratory and clinical group has been interested for the last twenty years in the disparate effects of autologous and allogeneic transfusions on immune function, as well as the potential benefits of removing allogeneic white cells and stored supernatant plasma from blood components before transfusions.

Any other information:

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Hematology > Hematologic Transplantation & Transfusion (since 14 November 2005)

Links

http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/gebs/faculty/Neil_Blumberg.htm

All recent recommendations

• 9.9
  A comparison of aprotinin and lysine analogues in high-risk cardiac surgery.
  Recommended by John Laffey, Alain Vuylsteke, John Augoustides
  Dissent by Neil Blumberg
• 6.6
  Duration of red-cell storage and complications after cardiac surgery.
  Recommended by Andrew Davenport, Alan Merry with Craig Webster, Martin Dunser, Praveen Neema with Manikandan Sethuraman
  Dissent by Neil Blumberg, Shailendra Joshi
• 3.0
  Is increased mortality associated with post-operative infections after leukocytes containing red blood cell transfusions in cardiac surgery? An extended analysis.
  Recommended by Neil Blumberg
  
• 6.4
  The impact of universal leukodepletion of the blood supply on hemovigilance reports of posttransfusion purpura and transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease.
  Recommended by Chris Prowse, Neil Blumberg
  
• 3.0
  The effects of leukoreduced blood transfusion on infection risk following injury: a randomized controlled trial.
  Recommended by Neil Blumberg
  
• 6.9
  The risk associated with aprotinin in cardiac surgery.
  Recommended by Andrew Davenport, Manfred Seeberger, Anneke Brand, Philippe de Moerloose, Chris Prowse
  Dissent by Neil Blumberg
• 3.0
  Repeat ABO-incompatible platelet transfusions leading to haemolytic transfusion reaction.
  Recommended by Neil Blumberg
  
• 3.0
  Transfusion increases the risk of postoperative infection after cardiovascular surgery.
  Recommended by Neil Blumberg
  
• 3.0
  Acute hemolytic transfusion reaction in a pediatric patient following transfusion of apheresis platelets.
  Recommended by Neil Blumberg
  
• 3.0
  The implications of blood transfusions for patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: results from the CRUSADE National Quality Improvement Initiative.
  Recommended by Neil Blumberg