Assessing the Effect of Changing the Average Hematocrit in Red Blood Cell (RBC) Units on the Post- Procedure Hematocrits of Patients Undergoing Erythrocytapheresis
Musante K, Roome L, Yurtsever N, Rinder H, Tormey C, Lee E. Assessing the Effect of Changing the Average Hematocrit in Red Blood Cell (RBC) Units on the Post- Procedure Hematocrits of Patients Undergoing Erythrocytapheresis. American Journal Of Clinical Pathology 2024, 162: s147-s147. DOI: 10.1093/ajcp/aqae129.326.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSickle cell diseaseRed blood cell unitsSickle cell disease patientsRed blood cellsPatient's HctRBC unitsTransfused RBC unitsRetrospective chart reviewTwo-sample t-testChart reviewAdverse eventsMedian numberPre-procedureProphylactic procedureCell diseasePatientsAcademic hospitalAverage hematocritAverage HctBlood cellsHctTransfusion servicesT-testQuality studiesHematocritHematocrits of red blood cell units increase during storage due to changes in mean corpuscular volume, impacting outcomes of red cell exchange procedures
Lee E, Musante K, Errico J, Rinder H, Kleinstein S, Tormey C, Yurtsever N. Hematocrits of red blood cell units increase during storage due to changes in mean corpuscular volume, impacting outcomes of red cell exchange procedures. American Journal Of Clinical Pathology 2024, 162: s157-s157. DOI: 10.1093/ajcp/aqae129.348.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMean corpuscular volumeMultilevel linear regression modelsPosterior meanStorage timeWeeks of storageRed blood cell exchangeFunction of storage timeLinear regression modelsRed blood cell unitsPosterior distribution of model parametersAkaike weightsMultilevel regression modelsRegression modelsRed blood cellsPosterior distributionDistribution of model parametersRBC unitsModel selectionRStan packageCorpuscular volumeHematological parameters