Reexamination of the chromium-51-labeled posttransfusion red blood cell recovery method.
Richard O FrancisSonia MahajanFrancesca RapidoFrancesca La CarpiaMark SoffingChaitanya DivgiRandy YehAkiva MintzLenhurst LeslieIrina AgrestMatthew S KarafinYelena GinzburgBeth H ShazSteven L SpitalnikJoseph SchwartzTiffany ThomasXiaoyun FuPascal AmireaultPierre BuffetJames C ZimringAngelo D'AlessandroEldad A HodPublished in: Transfusion (2019)
Sources of measurement error are inherent in the chromium-51 PTR method. Transfusion of an entire unlabeled RBC unit, followed by quantifying extravascular hemolysis markers, may more accurately measure true posttransfusion RBC recovery.