Our Research Publications

Updated August 2024

Title Authors Year Journal Link to Article Intended Audience Purpose
Current challenges of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) seroprevalence studies among blood donors: A scoping review Saeed S, Uzicanin S, Lewin A, Lieshout-Krikke R, Faddy H, Erikstrup C, Osiowy C, Seed C, Steele W, Davidson K, Custer B, O’Brien S, Assessment ObotSR, Policy sub-group of the Transfusion Transmitted Infectious Diseases Working Party of the International Society of Blood Transfusion 2021 medRxiv View Researchers Basic research
International Forum on Walking Blood Bank Programmes: Summary Martinaud C, Scorer T, Lozano M, Miles A, Fitchett G, Ba A, Wikman A, Nimberger-Hansson P, Enbuske S, Bohon?k M, Devine D, Beckett AN, Mbanya D, T'Sas F, Degueldre J, Chueca M, Dedome E, Apelseth T, Strandenes G, Wendel S, Fachini R, Olszewski A, Dupont C, Glassberg E, Shinar E, Taylor AL, Corley JB, Sekaran Nadarajan V, Dunbar N 2021 Vox Sang View Blood operators Benchmarking and standard setting
CD248 enhances tissue factor procoagulant function, promoting arterial and venous thrombosis in mouse models Kapopara PR, Safikhan NS, Huang JL, Meixner SC, Gonzalez K, Loghmani H, Ruf W, Mast AE, Lei V, Pryzdial ELG, Conway EM 2021 J Thromb Haemost View Researchers Basic research
Rethinking platelet transfusion practices Devine DV 2021 Blood View Health care providers New or improved product or process
Convalescent plasma for hospitalized patients with COVID-19 and the effect of plasma antibodies: a randomized controlled, open-label trial Bégin P, Callum J, Jamula E, Cook R, Heddle NM, Tinmouth A, Zeller MP, Beaudoin-Bussières G, Amorim L, Bazin R, Loftsgard KC, Carl R, Chassé M, Cushing MM, Daneman N, Devine DV, Dumaresq J, Fergusson DA, Gabe C, Glesby MJ, Li N, Liu Y, McGeer A, Robitaille N, Sachais BS, Scales DC, Schwartz L, Shehata N, Turgeon AF, Wood H, Zarychanski R, Finzi A, Arnold DM, for The CONCOR-1 Study Group 2021 medRxiv View Health care providers Clinical research
Necrotizing enterocolitis and mortality after transfusion of ABO non-identical blood Parvizian MK, Barty R, Heddle NM, Li N, McDougall T, Mukerji A, Fusch C, Solh Z 2021 Transfusion View Researchers Clinical research
Mechanism of increased efficacy of recombinant Fc-?TP-L309C compared to IVIg to ameliorate mouse immune thrombocytopenia Lewis BJB, Binnington B, Blacquiere M, Spirig R, Käsermann F, Branch DR 2021 eJHaem View Researchers Basic research
Evidence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Cells, Tissues, and Organs and the Risk of Transmission Through Transplantation Gaussen A, Hornby L, Rockl G, O’Brien S, Delage G, Sapir-Pichhadze R, Drews SJ, Weiss MJ, Lewin A 2021 Transplantation View Health care providers Clinical research
The SSC platelet immunology register of VITT and VIITP: Toward standardization of laboratory and clinical parameters Choi PY, Grace RF, Therese Ahlen M, Nazy I, Sachs UJ, Arnold DM, McKenzie SE, Althaus K, Sharma R, Bakchoul T 2021 J Thromb Haemost View Researchers Benchmarking and standard setting
ResearchUnit: Intravenous albumin is not associated with improved outcomes in cardiac surgery patients Bartoszko J 2021 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Clinical research
Evidence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Cells, Tissues and Organs and the Risk of Transmission Through Transplantation Gaussen A, Hornby L, Rockl G, O'Brien S, Delage G, Sapir-Pichhadze R, Drews SJ, Weiss MJ, Lewin A 2021 Transplantation View Health care providers Clinical research
International survey on Helicobacter pylori testing in patients with immune thrombocytopenia: Communication of the platelet immunology scientific and standardization committee Vishnu P, Duncan J, Connell N, Cooper N, Lim W, Rodeghiero F, Tomiyama Y, Grace RF, Bakchoul T, Arnold DM 2021 J Thromb Haemost View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Terminal half-life of FVIII and FIX according to age, blood group and concentrate type: Data from the WAPPS database Versloot O, Iserman E, Chelle P, Germini F, Edginton AN, Schutgens REG, Iorio A, Fischer K 2021 J Thromb Haemost View Researchers Clinical research
Antibody and cellular therapies for treatment of covid-19: a living systematic review and network meta-analysis Siemieniuk RA, Bartoszko JJ, Díaz Martinez JP, Kum E, Qasim A, Zeraatkar D, Izcovich A, Mangala S, Ge L, Han MA, Agoritsas T, Arnold D, Ávila C, Chu DK, Couban R, Cusano E, Darzi AJ, Devji T, Foroutan F, Ghadimi M, Khamis A, Lamontagne F, Loeb M, Miroshnychenko A, Motaghi S, Murthy S, Mustafa RA, Rada G, Rochwerg B, Switzer C, Vandvik PO, Vernooij RW, Wang Y, Yao L, Guyatt GH, Brignardello-Petersen R 2021 BMJ View Researchers Clinical research
Rapport de surveillance 2020 O'Brien S 2021 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Anaphylactic transfusion reactions and IgA deficiency Khandelwal A, Clarke G, Goldman M 2021 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Current Understanding of the Relationship between Blood Donor Variability and Blood Component Quality Hadjesfandiari N, Khorshidfar M, Devine DV 2021 Int J Mol Sci View Blood operators New or improved product or process
Diagnostic approach to the adult with unexplained thrombocytopenia Arnold D, Cuker A 2021 UptoDate View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Proposal of the Definition for COVID-19-Associated Coagulopathy Iba T, Warkentin TE, Thachil J, Levi M, Levy JH 2021 J Clin Med View Health care providers Clinical research
How to use low-molecular-weight heparin to treat neonatal thrombosis in clinical practice Ting J, Yeung K, Paes B, Chan AKC, Petropoulos JA, Banfield L, Bhatt MD 2021 Blood Coagul Fibrinolysis View Health care providers Clinical research
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) seroprevalence: Navigating the absence of a gold standard Saeed S, O’Brien SF, Abe K, Yi Q-L, Rathod B, Wang J, Fazel-Zarandi M, Tuite A, Fisman D, Wood H, Colwill K, Gingras A-C, Drews SJ 2021 PLoS One View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Using Blood Wisely One Year Later – Ontario Hospitals Stepping Up to the Challenge Day D, Lin Y 2021 Ontario Regional Blood Coordinating Network September 2021 Newsletter View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Convalescent plasma for hospitalized patients with COVID-19: an open-label, randomized controlled trial Bégin P, Callum J, Jamula E, Cook R, Heddle NM, Tinmouth A, Zeller MP, Beaudoin-Bussières G, Amorim L, Bazin R, Loftsgard KC, Carl R, Chassé M, Cushing MM, Daneman N, Devine DV, Dumaresq J, Fergusson DA, Gabe C, Glesby MJ, Li N, Liu Y, McGeer A, Robitaille N, Sachais BS, Scales DC, Schwartz L, Shehata N, Turgeon AF, Wood H, Zarychanski R, Finzi A, Marceau D, Huang A, Carr H, Lin Y, Lall R, Graham C, Arsenault C, Sales V, Sidhu D, Semret M, Hamm C, Arhanchiague E, Solh Z, Srour N, Soliman K, Yee C, Laroche V, Nahirniak S, Greenaway C, Pai M, Côté A, Tsang JLY, Cserti-Gazdewich C, Talbot D, Poulin S, Guimaraes R, Rushton-Marovac M, Langlois A, Ning S, Shih A, Boileau M, Singh H, Ledingham D, Ponnampalam A, Yan M, Prokopchuk-Gauk O, Poirier A, Girouard G, Pavenski K, Drouin O, Harris D, Durand M, Rimmer E, Ovakim D, Ménard F, Cuccarolo G, Carruthers J, Lucier K, Arsenault V, Auclair M-C, Avram M, Brassard M, Cerro S, Martinez V, Morin J, Saint-Jacques M, Veillette M, Armali C, Kron A, Modi D, Duncan J, Justumus P, John MS, St-Onge G, Hadzi-Tosev M, Dion P-M, McGillivary L, de Moulliac AV, Nyman SA, Perilli S, Van Vliet PJ, Lane S, Pavenski K, Pereira R, Sirotich E, Abelson J, Greene S, Khandelwal A, Thakar S, Longo S, Anand SP, Benlarbi M, Bourassa C, Boutin M, Descôteaux-Dinelle J, Gendron-Lepage G, Goyette G, Laumaea A, Medjahed H, Prévost J, Richard J, Kaufmann D, Brunet-Ratnasingham E, Chaumont N, Drebot M, Robinson A, Mendoza E, Dimitrova K, Manguiat K, Phillipson C, Chan M, Evans D, Lin J, Boyer L, Cloutier M, Drouin M, Ducas É, Dussault N, Fournier M-J, Landy P, Nolin M-È, Perreault J, Tremblay T, Nazy I, Xie F, Liu D, Wong M, Silverio G, Walkus K, Barton M, Haveman K, Mueller D, Scott A, Moher M, Wood G, Roarty T, Auld F, Carney G, Thomson V, Onell R, Walley K, Donohoe K, Brunk C, Hernandez G, Jacobucci T, Lazosky L, Mann P, Raval G, Zampieri LA, Sekhon M, Wright A, James N, Chang G, Chen R, Deol K, Gantioqui J, Larsen E, Ramdin N, Roche M, Rosinski K, Sham L, Storms M, Gillrie M, Mahe E, Suryanarayan D, Ugarte-Torres A, Robinson T, Gibbs M, Hewsgirard J, Holmes M, McCarthy J, Ody M, Doucette K, Sligl W, Sonpar A, Robertson K, Narayan J, Ravindran L, Stewart B, Zapernick L, Lee S, Sy E, Wong A, Gryzb K, Craddock S, Fuchs D, Myrah D, Sunny S, Harding SR, Kogilwaimath S, Hodgson N, Johnson D, Meier S, Thomson K, Heendeniya A, Houston B, Kenyan Y, Lother S, Olafson K, Rush B, Wuerz T, Solvason D, Albensi L, Alias S, Choi N, Curtis L, Hutmacher M, Kashani H, Lane D, Marten N, Pronyk-Ward T, Rigaux L, Silva R, Tays Q, Naidu R, Mathews J, Mai M, Miceli V, Molson L, Radhakrishnan G, Schaefer L, Haddad M, Landry S, Chernish R, Kruisselbrink R, Liu T, Jeromin J, Siddiqui A, Girolametto C, Krokoszynski K, Main C, Fox-Robichaud A, Rochwerg B, Kruja E, Ellingham D, Sampat D, Tang N, Leto D, Karunakaran M, Ricciuto D, Fusco K, Ghate T, Robinson H, Ball I, Shalhoub S, Slessarev M, Silverman M, Nano E, Bentall T, Campbell E, Kinney J, Parvathy S, Fera E, Delfa AL, Nadarajah J, Solow H, Mendoza E, Engel K, Monaco D, Kononow L, Suntharalingam S, Fralick M, Munshi L, Saeed S, Hajjaj O, Hsu E, Ali K, Duan E, Farjou G, Jenson L, Salib M, Patterson L, Anant S, Ding J, Jomy J, Das P, Geagea A, the Concor-Study Group 2021 Nat Med View Health care providers Clinical research
Concentré de recherche: Traitement périopératoire des patients atteints de thrombocytopénie immunitaire : comparaison de l’eltrombopag et des immunoglobulines intraveineuses Arnold DM 2021 Blood.ca website Health care providers Clinical research
High sub-zero organ preservation: A paradigm of nature-inspired strategies William N, Acker JP 2021 Cryobiology View Researchers Basic research
Complete Genome Sequence of Staphylococcus aureus PS/BAC/169/17/W, Isolated from a Contaminated Platelet Concentrate in England Paredes C, Chi SI, Flint A, Weedmark K, McDonald C, Bearne J, Ramirez-Arcos S, Pagotto F, Baltrus DA 2021 Microbiol Resour Announc View Researchers Benchmarking and standard setting
An international comparison of anti-SARS-COV-2 assays used for seroprevalence surveys from blood component providers Lewin A, Drews SJ, Lieshout-Krikke R, Erikstrup C, Saeed S, Fady H, Uzicanin S, Custer B, O’Brien SF, the Surveillance Risk Assessment Policy tVS-gotI, Transfusion Transmitted Infectious Diseases Working Party 2021 Vox Sang View Blood operators Benchmarking and standard setting
Double high-dose immunoglobulin for ChAdOx1 nCov-19 vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia Huang CT, Hsu SY, Wang CH, Tseng WJ, Yang CY, Ng CJ, Warkentin TE, Cheng MH 2021 Thromb Res View Researchers Clinical research
The safety of COVID-19 convalescent plasma donation: A multi-institutional donor hemovigilance study Cho JH, Rajbhandary S, van Buren NL, Fung MK, Al-Ghafry M, Fridey JL, Dy BA, Ziman A, Schreiber GB, Gammon RR, Reik R, Stubbs JR, van Buskirk CM, Kamel H, Townsend MJ, Zeller MP, Gottschall JL 2021 Transfusion View Blood operators Benchmarking and standard setting
Circulaire d'information utilisation de composants sanguins humains: Composants plasmatiques Jenkins C 2021 Blood.ca website Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Exploring the components of bleeding outcomes in transfusion trials for patients with hematologic malignancy Balitsky AK, Liu Y, Van der Meer PF, Heddle NM, Arnold DM 2021 Transfusion View Researchers Clinical research
Irradiated, Washed and CMV Seronegative Blood Components Prokopchuk-Gauk O, Solh Z 2021 Clinical Guide to Transfusion View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence among blood donors after the first COVID-19 wave in Canada Saeed S, Drews SJ, Pambrun C, Yi Q-L, Osmond L, O'Brien SF 2021 Transfusion View Researchers Clinical research
Managing drug shortages during a pandemic: tocilizumab and COVID-19 Verma AA, Pai M, Saha S, Bean S, Fralick M, Gibson JL, Greenberg RA, Kwan JL, Lapointe-Shaw L, Tang T, Morris AM, Razak F 2021 CMAJ View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Surveillance report 2020 O'Brien S 2021 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Répercussions de la COVID-19 sur le don de sang au Canada Khandelwal A 2021 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Syndrome respiratoire aigu post-transfusionnel (TRALI) Gupta A, Yan M 2021 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Adjunct Immune Globulin for Vaccine-Induced Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia Bourguignon A, Arnold DM, Warkentin TE, Smith JW, Pannu T, Shrum JM, Al Maqrashi ZAA, Shroff A, Lessard M-C, Blais N, Kelton JG, Nazy I 2021 N Engl J Med View Health care providers Clinical research
ResearchUnit: Treatment and detection of vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) Abe T 2021 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Clinical research
A prospective multi-faceted interventional study of blood bank technologist screening of red blood cell transfusion orders: The START study Kron AT, Collins A, Cserti-Gazdewich C, Pendergrast J, Webert K, Lieberman L, Zeller MP, Harding SR, Nahirniak S, Prokopchuk-Gauk O, Lin Y, Mendez B, Armali C, Lee C, Watson D, Arnott D, Xun F, Blain H, Panchuk H, Hughes H, Chorneyko K, Angers M, Pilutti N, Lett R, Dowsley S, Ruijs T, Cupido T, Kichinko T, Thompson T, Afshar-Ghotli Z, Callum J, University of Toronto Quality in Utilization, Education and Safety in Transfusion (QUEST) Research Program 2021 Transfusion View Health care providers Clinical research
Tantalum-containing meso-porous glass fibres for hemostatic applications Nagrath M, Rahimnejad Yazdi A, Rafferty A, Daly D, Rahman SU, Gallant RC, Ni H, Arany PR, Towler MR 2021 Mater Today Commun View Researchers Basic research
Genome Sequence of Staphylococcus aureus Strain CBS2016-05, Isolated from Contaminated Platelet Concentrates in Canada Yousuf B, Flint A, Weedmark K, Pagotto F, Ramirez-Arcos S, Hotopp JCD 2021 Microbiol Resour Announc View Researchers Benchmarking and standard setting
Peptide-Modified Surfaces for Binding Carbamylated Proteins from Plasma Ma Y, Hadjesfandiari N, Doschak M, Devine D, Tonelli M, Unsworth L 2021 Langmuir View Researchers Basic research
A systematic review of the association between anti-?-2 glycoprotein I antibodies and APS manifestations Jiang D, Lim W, Crowther M, Garcia D 2021 Blood Adv View Researchers Clinical research
Convalescent plasma for adults with acute COVID-19 respiratory illness (CONCOR-1): study protocol for an international, multicentre, randomized, open-label trial Bégin P, Callum J, Heddle NM, Cook R, Zeller MP, Tinmouth A, Fergusson DA, Cushing MM, Glesby MJ, Chassé M, Devine DV, Robitalle N, Bazin R, Shehata N, Finzi A, McGeer A, Scales DC, Schwartz L, Turgeon AF, Zarychanski R, Daneman N, Carl R, Amorim L, Gabe C, Ellis M, Sachais BS, Loftsgard KC, Jamula E, Carruthers J, Duncan J, Lucier K, Li N, Liu Y, Armali C, Kron A, Modi D, Auclair M-C, Cerro S, Avram M, Arnold DM 2021 Trials View Researchers Clinical research
Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) World Impact Survey (I-WISh): Impact of ITP on health-related quality of life Cooper N, Kruse A, Kruse C, Watson S, Morgan M, Provan D, Ghanima W, Arnold DM, Tomiyama Y, Santoro C, Michel M, Laborde S, Lovrencic B, Hou M, Bailey T, Taylor-Stokes G, Haenig J, Bussel JB 2021 Am J Hematol View Researchers Clinical research
An open-source python library for detection of known and novel Kell, Duffy and Kidd variants from exome sequencing Montemayor C, Simone A, Long J, Montemayor O, Delvadia B, Rivera R, Lewis KL, Shahsavari S, Gandla D, Dura K, Krishnan US, Wendzel NC, Elavia N, Grissom S, Karagianni P, Bueno M, Loy D, Cacanindin R, McLaughlin S, Tynuv M, Brunker PAR, Roback J, Adams S, Smith H, Biesecker L, Klein HG 2021 Vox Sang View Health care providers New or improved product or process
Transfusion-related Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection: A multicenter prospective cohort study among pediatric recipients of hematopoietic stem cell transplants (TREASuRE study) Enok Bonong PR, Buteau C, Delage G, Tanner JE, Lacroix J, Duval M, Laporte L, Tucci M, Robitaille N, Spinella PC, Cuvelier G, Vercauteren S, Lewis V, Fearon M, Drews SJ, Alfieri C, Trottier H 2021 Transfusion View Health care providers Clinical research
Editorial on Thaler et al. long-term follow-up after successful treatment of vaccine-induced prothrombotic immune thrombocytopenia. Thromb Res 2021 in press Warkentin TE, Pai M 2021 Thromb Res View Researchers Clinical research
Complete Genome Sequence of Staphylococcus aureus CI/BAC/25/13/W, Isolated from Contaminated Platelet Concentrates in England Paredes C, Chi SI, Flint A, Weedmark K, McDonald C, Bearne J, Ramirez-Arcos S, Pagotto F 2021 Microbiol Resour Announc View Researchers Benchmarking and standard setting