Plenary 1: Advances with Donors
Day: Wednesday | Time: 17:00 - 18:30
Session Coordinators:
Fiona Regan & Jonathan Wallis
Speakers:
Interval Study - Outcomes
Professor David Roberts, NHSBT
Donor Genotyping in Practice - Rh Variants and Extended Matching
Dr Thierry Peyrard, National Immunohaematology Reference Lab, National Institute of Blood Transfusion, Paris.
1700_wed_lomond_thierry_peyrard.pdf
Donor Genotyping in Practice - Who and How?
Prof Ellen van der Schoot
1700_wed_lomond_van_der_schoot.pdf
Intended Audience:
All - will be of relevance and interest for all doctors, Transfusion Practitioners, Biomedical Scientists and others intersted in transfusion.
Learning Objectives:
1) understand what can be tested for by donor genotyping
2) what benefits there could be in matching blood for patients with sickle cell disease
3) any implications for donors
Brief Description:
This session covers advances in testing of donors genetically, which can shed new light on how best to use donors to help patients needing “rare blood” eg: patients with sickle cell disease, who have antibodies to Rh variants. Do we match for those, or do extended matching for other antigens (Fy, Jk) which has long been desirable? Can we manage either, let alone both? What can we test donors for altogether? Will it help solve problems and guide more individual tailoring of how often donors can donate without iron deficiency problems? Find out in the first Plenary of BBTS 2017.
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