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Issue: Ahead-of-Print Publication Date: 2026-10-22
Eptacog beta for breakthrough elbow hemarthrosis during concizumab prophylaxis in a pediatric patient with hemophilia B: a case report: Episodic eptacog-beta treatment in concizumab prophylaxis

Giuseppe Lassandro, Luisa Laterza, Cornelia Guerrino, Valentina Palladino, Paola Giordano
Issue: Ahead-of-Print Publication Date: 2026-10-21
Concurrent treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and acquired von Willebrand syndrome using a Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor: a case report: Treating AvWS and CLL with Acalabrutinib

Andrea Papa, Mario Biglietto, Erminia Baldacci, Rosaria Mormile, Andrea Corbingi, Antonio Chistolini, Cristina Santoro, Azzurra Anna Romeo
Issue: Ahead-of-Print Publication Date: 2026-10-21
Peripartum management of a monochorionic diamniotic twin pregnancy in a woman with mild hemophilia B using eftrenonacog alfa: a case report: A safe delivery in a high-risk setting

Tiziano Martini, Beatrice Borsellino, Berardino Pollio
Issue: Ahead-of-Print Publication Date: 2026-07-06
Navigating boundaries of autoimmunity in rare anemias: anti-erythropoietin antibody-mediated pure red cell aplasia in a patient with cold agglutinin disease: Anti-EPO pure red cell aplasia in cold agglutinin disease

Giacinto Luca Pedone, Marta Bortolotti, Giorgio Alberto Croci, Bruno Fattizzo
Issue: Vol. 24 No. 4 (2026): Blood Transfusion 4-2026 (July-August) Publication Date: 2026-06-11
A case of early pregnancy pulmonary embolism following mifepristone administration: a call for increased pharmacovigilance and research: Early pregnancy pulmonary embolism after mifepristone assumption

Elena Dasti, Maria Lombardi, Aderville Cabassi, Michele Riva, Elisa Avantaggiato, Gaetano Carolla, Francesco Greco, Veronica Rendo, Pietro Rossetti, Pasquale Rubino, Elena Scardina, Adriano Stella, Elvira Grandone
Issue: Vol. 24 No. 2 (2026): Blood Transfusion 2-2026 (March-April) Publication Date: 2026-01-14
Severe hemophilia A with inhibitors and pancreatic cancer – when emicizumab is not enough: Emicizumab isn’t enough

Mario Biglietto, Silvia Linari, Anna Laura Faccini, Silvia Sorella, Erica Crisanti, Marco Antonacci, Silvio Ligia, Rosaria Mormile, Roberta Ciciani, Erminia Baldacci, Cristina Santoro
Issue: Vol. 24 No. 1 (2026): Blood Transfusion 1-2026 (January-February) Publication Date: 2025-10-02
Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia due to anti-HPA-1b and anti-HLA antibodies: diagnostic and transfusion management of a clinical case: Diagnostic tools to guide FNAIT management

Donatella Londero, Chiara Sindici, Sonia Merluzzi, Egle Bertozzo, Giovanni Barillari
Issue: Vol. 24 No. 2 (2026): Blood Transfusion 2-2026 (March-April) Publication Date: 2025-09-30
Sphenoidal sinus extramedullary hematopoiesis in a child with sickle cell disease. A case report: Sphenoidal sinus EMH in a child with SCD

Sara Pestarino, Daniela Guardo, Frank Rikki Mauriz Canevari, Luca Guastini, Gianluca Piatelli, Domenico Tortora, Mariasavina Severino, Diego Criminelli Rossi, Maurizio Miano, Carlo Dufour
Issue: Vol. 24 No. 1 (2026): Blood Transfusion 1-2026 (January-February) Publication Date: 2025-08-25
Passive transfer of silent red blood cell autoantibodies via the placenta and breast milk: a case report: Silent RBC autoantibodies in neonatal plasma and maternal breast milk

Zorica Radonjić, Jelena Martić, Zorica Rakonjac, Nina Korać, Olivera Šerbić, Martina Blagojević
Issue: Vol. 23 No. 6 (2025): Blood Transfusion 6-2025 (November-December) Publication Date: 2025-08-06
Delayed hemolytic transfusion reaction associated with anti-Au(a) antibody in a young male with beta-thalassemia: Anti-Au(a) associated hemolytic reaction

Aleksander Luniewski, Courtney E. Lawrence, C. John Luckey, James D. Gorham
Issue: Vol. 23 No. 6 (2025): Blood Transfusion 6-2025 (November-December) Publication Date: 2025-07-17
Mitapivat therapy in a patient with nonsense homozygous mutation of the Pyruvate Kinase L/R gene: a case report: Mitapivat benefits in PK deficiency with R510X mutation

Sara Ceglie, Caterina Giovanna Valentini, Claudio Pellegrino, Giuseppina Massini, Luciana Teofili
Issue: Vol. 22 No. 6 (2024): Blood Transfusion 6-2024 (November-December) Publication Date: 2024-08-26
Recurrent disease after a matched sibling hematopoietic transplant in an aplastic anemia patient with a disease risk allele, HLA-B*40:02: HSCT for Aplastic Anemia with HLA-B*40:02

Akshita Khosla, Yoshitaka Inoue, Joseph Cioccio, Kevin Rakszawski, Natthapol Songdej, Myles Nickolich, Hong Zheng, Seema Naik, Christopher Ehmann, David Claxton, Witold Rybka, Jeffrey Sivik, Joseph Mierski, Brooke Silar, Caitlin Vajdic, Raymond Hohl, Hiroko Shike, Shin Mineishi, Kentaro Minagawa
Issue: Vol. 23 No. 3 (2025): Blood Transfusion 3-2025 (May-June) Publication Date: 2024-06-12
Severe aplastic anemia secondary to immune checkpoint inhibitor: case report and literature review: Severe aplastic anemia after pembrolizumab

Alessandro Bosi, Maria Chiara Di Chio, Marta Bortolotti, Giorgio Alberto Croci, Francesco Passamonti, Wilma Barcellini, Bruno Fattizzo
Issue: Vol. 23 No. 3 (2025): Blood Transfusion 3-2025 (May-June) Publication Date: 2024-06-07
A case of trisomy 9 with mixed-field ABO blood type: Trisomy 9 with mixed-field ABO blood type

Sena Fujii, Yuji Shimura, Keiichi Shigehara, Yuji Sasada, Tohru Inaba
Issue: Vol. 22 No. 4 (2024): Blood Transfusion 4-2024 (July-August) Publication Date: 2024-06-03
Severe breakthrough hemolysis during compassionate use of Pegcetacoplan in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria: managing an emergency: BTH in Pegcetacoplan

Elisabetta Metafuni, Antonella Carbone, Luca Petriccione, Sabrina Giammarco, Maria Assunta Limongiello, Silvia Bellesi, Patrizia Chiusolo, Simona Sica
Issue: Vol. 22 No. 3 (2024): Blood Transfusion 3-2024 (May-June) Publication Date: 2023-09-04
Aplastic anemia after SARS-CoV-2 infection or vaccines: case series and literature review: Aplastic anemia and SARS-CoV-2

Bruno Fattizzo, Raffaella Pasquale, Giorgio Aleberto Croci, Loredana Pettine, Giulio Cassanello, Wilma Barcellini
Issue: Vol. 22 No. 1 (2024): Blood Transfusion 1-2024 (January-February) Publication Date: 2023-03-21
The first case of hyperfibrinolysis induced by delayed hemolytic transfusion reaction in a trauma patient: Hyperfibrinolysis and delayed hemolytic transfusion reaction

Ha Jin Lim, Hyunseok Jang
Issue: Vol. 21 No. 5 (2023): Blood Transfusion 5-2023 (September-October) Publication Date: 2023-03-10
Solid tumor transmission from donor to recipient after allogeneic stem cell transplantation: it is rare but it happens! Solid tumor transmission from donor to recipient

Panagiotis Tsirigotis, Alexandros Spyridonidis, Konstantinos Gkirkas, Spiros Chondropoulos, Phivi Rondogianni, Thomas Thomopoulos, Angeliki Karagiannidou, Dionysios Vythoulkas, Marianna Griniezaki, Nikolaos Georgakopoulos, Maria Stamouli, Periklis G. Foukas
Issue: Vol. 22 No. 1 (2024): Blood Transfusion 1-2024 (January-February) Publication Date: 2023-02-07
A rare case of congenital amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia associated with possible neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia and neutropenia by anti-HLA antibodies: CAMT associated with possible NAIT and NAIN

Luca Collodel, Michela Chirico, Paola Cavicchioli, Gianluca Gessoni
Issue: Vol. 20 No. 5 (2022): Blood Transfusion - 5 2022 (September-October) Publication Date: 2022-05-19
Breakthrough haemolysis in paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria after COVID-19 infection and COVID vaccination: what is worse?

Francesca Cavallaro, Maria C. Pasquini, Juri A. Giannotta, Federica Cattina, Wilma Barcellini, Bruno Fattizzo
Issue: Vol. 20 No. 4 (2022): Blood Transfusion - 4 2022 (July-August) Publication Date: 2022-05-06
Severe thrombocytopenia in two children following split liver transplantation from the same donor with idiopathic thrombocytopenia

Yongjun Wang, Liyao Fu, Yanhong Bu, Ningjie Zhang
Issue: Vol. 21 No. 4 (2023): Blood Transfusion 4-2023 (July-August) Publication Date: 2022-04-19
Blood donations affect disease management in a case of warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia: Remission of AIHA without steroid therapy

Chuan-Shi Liu, Jun Yu Woon, Yu-Ting Chiu, Shih-Chien Lu, Li-Te Chin
Issue: Vol. 20 No. 2 (2022): Blood Transfusion - 2 2022 (March-April) Publication Date: 2021-12-02
Plasma exchange as an effective salvage therapy in AZD1222 vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia: a case report

Carlos J. de Miguel-Sanchez, Miguel Arguello-Tomas, Gloria Perez-Rus, Pilar Vazquez-Allen, Antonia G. Mijaylova-Antonova, Fernando Anaya, Miguel Lopez-Esteban, Jose Luis Diez-Martin, Antonio Carmelo Gil-Nuñez, Cristina Pascual-Izquierdo
Issue: Vol. 20 No. 2 (2022): Blood Transfusion - 2 2022 (March-April) Publication Date: 2021-08-06
Acute haemolysis by cold antibody during SARS-CoV-2 infection in a patient with Evans syndrome: a case report and literature review

Nicola Osti, Jacopo Ceolan, Pierluigi Piccoli, Filippo Mazzi, Rachele Montemezzi, Francesco Dima, Simonetta Friso, Francesca Pizzolo, Nicola Martinelli, Monica Rizzi, Sara Moruzzi, Oliviero Olivieri, Lucia De Franceschi
Issue: Vol. 20 No. 4 (2022): Blood Transfusion - 4 2022 (July-August) Publication Date: 2021-05-21
Massive foeto-maternal transfusion: how long are foetal blood cells detectable in the maternal circulation?

Fabrizio Signore, Laura Marchi, Nathalie Conti, Cinzia Orlandini, Annalisa Vidiri, Francesca Brugnolo, Franco Bambi, Simona Zaami, Giovanni Scambia, Anna F. Cavaliere
Issue: Vol. 19 No. 4 (2021): Blood Transfusion - 4 2021 (July-August) Publication Date: 2021-05-21
A case of vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia with massive artero-venous thrombosis

Maria Costanza Turi, Francesca Spitaleri, Anna M. Gori, Giustino Parruti, Angela A. Rogolino, Alberto Albani, Betti Giusti, Luciano Agostinone, Francesca Cesari, Paola Ranalli, Stefano Pulini, Giorgia Di Gioacchino, Roberto Paganelli, Rossella Marcucci
Issue: Vol. 19 No. 6 (2021): Blood Transfusion - 6 2021 (November-December) Publication Date: 2021-04-15
Pulmonary tumour thrombotic microangiopathy in a young man: clinical and immunohistochemical characterisation of a rare complication of gastric signet-ring cell carcinoma

Raffaella Rossio, Erica Pagliaro, Andrea Artoni, Luciano Baronciani, Riccarda Russo, Maria Cristina Mocellin, Gianluca Lopez, Flora Peyvandi
Issue: Vol. 19 No. 2 (2021): Blood Transfusion - 2 2021 (March-April) Publication Date: 2021-02-03
Simultaneous diagnosis of severe SARS-CoV-2 infection and sickle cell disease in two infants

Emilia Parodi, Vincenzo Voi, Barbara Vania, Pietro Lonardi, Paola Saracco, Annalisa Longobardo, Sergio Grassitelli, Licia Peruzzi, Carlo Scolfaro, Antonio Piga
Issue: Vol. 19 No. 1 (2021): Blood Transfusion - 1 2021 (January-February) Publication Date: 2020-12-01
A case of Evans syndrome secondary to COVID-19

Nazlim Aktug Demir, Abdulkadir Basturk, Onur Ural, Sua Sumer, Batuhan Erdogdu, Hatice E. Kiratli, Jale B. Celik, Mustafa Koplay, Husamettin Vatansev
Issue: Vol. 19 No. 3 (2021): Blood Transfusion - 3 2021 (May-June) Publication Date: 2020-11-27
Spontaneous splenic rupture due to extramedullary haematopoiesis in a patient with inherited thrombocytopenia

Carlo Zaninetti, Clara Sacco, Daoud Rahal, Serena Barozzi, Carlo L. Balduini, Corrado Lodigiani, Alessandro Pecci
Issue: Vol. 19 No. 3 (2021): Blood Transfusion - 3 2021 (May-June) Publication Date: 2020-06-04
Continuous infusion with octocog alfa during cardiac surgery for tetralogy of Fallot in a haemophilic child

Giuseppe Lassandro, Gabriele Scalzo, Viviana V. Palmieri, Ugo Vairo, Leonardo Milella, Giuseppe Scrascia, Maria E. Mancuso, Paola Giordano
Issue: Vol. 18 No. 4 (2020): Blood Transfusion - 4 2020 (July-August) Publication Date: 2020-06-04
In vivo and in vitro cross-reactivity to fondaparinux in a stroke patient with IgG-PF4/heparin antibody-negative delayed-onset heparin-induced thrombocytopenia

Ivan Krečak, Gordana Tomac, Jakša Škugor, Velka Gverić-Krečak, Dražen Pulanić
Issue: Vol. 16 No. 4 (2018): Blood Transfusion - 4 2018 (July - August) Publication Date: 2017-06-08
Heparin-like effect resistant to protamine in a child with haemorrhagic shock. Do we need heparinase?

Mirco Nacoti, Diego Cantù, Daniele Bonacina, Federico Lussana, Ezio Bonanomi, Marina Marchetti, Anna Falanga
Issue: Vol. 16 No. 4 (2018): Blood Transfusion - 4 2018 (July - August) Publication Date: 2017-04-05
Haemophilia A: the consequences of de novo mutations. Two case reports

Federica Zarrilli, Antonio Coppola, Michele Schiavulli, Ernesto Cimino, Ausilia Elce, Giuseppe Rescigno, Giuseppe Castaldo, Felice Amato
Issue: Vol. 16 No. 1 (2018): Blood Transfusion - 1 2018 (January - February) Publication Date: 2016-10-24
Management of iron overload in myelodysplastic syndromes: combined deferasirox and deferoxamine in a patient with liver disease

Claudio Cerchione, Giuseppe Cerciello, Simona Avilia, Roberta Della Pepa, Novella Pugliese, Marco Picardi, Lucio Catalano, Fabrizio Pane

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Eptacog beta for breakthrough elbow hemarthrosis during concizumab prophylaxis in a pediatric patient with hemophilia B: a case report: Episodic eptacog-beta treatment in concizumab prophylaxis

Concurrent treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and acquired von Willebrand syndrome using a Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor: a case report: Treating AvWS and CLL with Acalabrutinib

Peripartum management of a monochorionic diamniotic twin pregnancy in a woman with mild hemophilia B using eftrenonacog alfa: a case report: A safe delivery in a high-risk setting

Navigating boundaries of autoimmunity in rare anemias: anti-erythropoietin antibody-mediated pure red cell aplasia in a patient with cold agglutinin disease: Anti-EPO pure red cell aplasia in cold agglutinin disease

A case of early pregnancy pulmonary embolism following mifepristone administration: a call for increased pharmacovigilance and research: Early pregnancy pulmonary embolism after mifepristone assumption

Severe hemophilia A with inhibitors and pancreatic cancer – when emicizumab is not enough: Emicizumab isn’t enough

Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia due to anti-HPA-1b and anti-HLA antibodies: diagnostic and transfusion management of a clinical case: Diagnostic tools to guide FNAIT management

Sphenoidal sinus extramedullary hematopoiesis in a child with sickle cell disease. A case report: Sphenoidal sinus EMH in a child with SCD

Passive transfer of silent red blood cell autoantibodies via the placenta and breast milk: a case report: Silent RBC autoantibodies in neonatal plasma and maternal breast milk

Delayed hemolytic transfusion reaction associated with anti-Au(a) antibody in a young male with beta-thalassemia: Anti-Au(a) associated hemolytic reaction

Mitapivat therapy in a patient with nonsense homozygous mutation of the Pyruvate Kinase L/R gene: a case report: Mitapivat benefits in PK deficiency with R510X mutation

Recurrent disease after a matched sibling hematopoietic transplant in an aplastic anemia patient with a disease risk allele, HLA-B*40:02: HSCT for Aplastic Anemia with HLA-B*40:02

Severe aplastic anemia secondary to immune checkpoint inhibitor: case report and literature review: Severe aplastic anemia after pembrolizumab

A case of trisomy 9 with mixed-field ABO blood type: Trisomy 9 with mixed-field ABO blood type

Severe breakthrough hemolysis during compassionate use of Pegcetacoplan in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria: managing an emergency: BTH in Pegcetacoplan

Aplastic anemia after SARS-CoV-2 infection or vaccines: case series and literature review: Aplastic anemia and SARS-CoV-2

The first case of hyperfibrinolysis induced by delayed hemolytic transfusion reaction in a trauma patient: Hyperfibrinolysis and delayed hemolytic transfusion reaction

Solid tumor transmission from donor to recipient after allogeneic stem cell transplantation: it is rare but it happens! Solid tumor transmission from donor to recipient

A rare case of congenital amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia associated with possible neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia and neutropenia by anti-HLA antibodies: CAMT associated with possible NAIT and NAIN

Breakthrough haemolysis in paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria after COVID-19 infection and COVID vaccination: what is worse?

Severe thrombocytopenia in two children following split liver transplantation from the same donor with idiopathic thrombocytopenia

Blood donations affect disease management in a case of warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia: Remission of AIHA without steroid therapy

Plasma exchange as an effective salvage therapy in AZD1222 vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia: a case report

Acute haemolysis by cold antibody during SARS-CoV-2 infection in a patient with Evans syndrome: a case report and literature review

Massive foeto-maternal transfusion: how long are foetal blood cells detectable in the maternal circulation?

A case of vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia with massive artero-venous thrombosis

Pulmonary tumour thrombotic microangiopathy in a young man: clinical and immunohistochemical characterisation of a rare complication of gastric signet-ring cell carcinoma

Simultaneous diagnosis of severe SARS-CoV-2 infection and sickle cell disease in two infants

A case of Evans syndrome secondary to COVID-19

Spontaneous splenic rupture due to extramedullary haematopoiesis in a patient with inherited thrombocytopenia

Continuous infusion with octocog alfa during cardiac surgery for tetralogy of Fallot in a haemophilic child

In vivo and in vitro cross-reactivity to fondaparinux in a stroke patient with IgG-PF4/heparin antibody-negative delayed-onset heparin-induced thrombocytopenia

Heparin-like effect resistant to protamine in a child with haemorrhagic shock. Do we need heparinase?

Haemophilia A: the consequences of de novo mutations. Two case reports

Management of iron overload in myelodysplastic syndromes: combined deferasirox and deferoxamine in a patient with liver disease

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Recurrent disease after a matched sibling hematopoietic transplant in an aplastic anemia patient with a disease risk allele, HLA-B40:02: HSCT for Aplastic Anemia with HLA-B40:02