Our Research Publications

Updated November 2023

Title Authors Year Journal Link to Article Intended Audience Purpose
Using blood donors and solid organ transplant donors and recipients to estimate the seroprevalence of cytomegalovirus and Epstein–Barr virus in Canada: A cross-sectional study Mabilangan C, Burton C, O'Brien S, Plitt S, Eurich DT, Preiksaitis J 2020 JAMMI View Researchers Clinical research
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
Using pharmacokinetics for tailoring prophylaxis in people with hemophilia switching between clotting factor products: A scoping review Yu JK, Iorio A, Edginton AN, Wapps co?investigators 2019 Res Pract Thromb Haemost View Researchers Clinical research
Using pharmacokinetics to individualize hemophilia therapy Iorio A 2017 Hematology Am Soc Hematol Educ Program View Health care providers Clinical research
Using population-wide administrative and laboratory data to estimate type- and subtype-specific influenza vaccine effectiveness: a surveillance protocol Scott AN, Buchan SA, Kwong JC, Drews SJ, Simmonds KA, Svenson LW 2019 BMJ Open View Researchers Clinical research
Using Raman spectroscopy to assess hemoglobin oxygenation in red blood cell concentrate: an objective proxy for morphological index to gauge the quality of stored blood? Atkins CG, Schulze HG, Chen D, Devine DV, Blades MW, Turner RF 2017 Analyst View Researchers New or improved product or process
Using simulation for strategic blood supply chain design in the Canadian prairies Blake J, McTaggart K 2016 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on SIMULTECH View Blood operators New or improved product or process
Using simulation to evaluate a blood supply network in the Canadian maritime provinces Blake J, Hardy M 2013 J Enterp Inf Manag View Researchers New or improved product or process
Using the K/BxN mouse model of endogenous, chronic, rheumatoid arthritis for the evaluation of potential immunoglobulin-based therapeutic agents, including IVIg and Fc-?TP-L309C, a recombinant IgG1 Fc hexamer Lewis BJB, Ville J, Blacquiere M, Cen S, Spirig R, Zuercher AW, Käsermann F, Branch DR 2019 BMC Immunol View Researchers Basic research
Using umbilical cord blood for regenerative therapy: Proof or promise? Allan DS 2020 Stem Cells View Researchers Clinical research
Utilisation des produits sanguins CMV négatifs Ryan J 2017 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Utilising red cell antigen genotyping and serological phenotyping in sickle cell disease patients to risk-stratify patients for alloimmunisation risk Shih AW, Yan MTS, Elahie AL, Barty RL, Liu Y, Berardi P, Azzam M, Siddiqui R, Parvizian MK, Mcdougall T, Heddle NM, Al-Habsi KS, Goldman M, Cote J, Athale U, Verhovsek MM 2020 Transfus Med View Health care providers Clinical research
Utility of cross-matched platelet transfusions in patients with hypoproliferative thrombocytopenia: a systematic review Vassallo RR, Fung M, Rebulla P, Duquesnoy R, Saw CL, Slichter SJ, Tanael S, Shehata N, International Collaboration for Guideline Development Implementation Evaluation for Transfusion Therapies Collaborators 2013 Transfusion View Researchers Clinical research
Utilization of a surgical database to provide care and assess perioperative treatment and outcomes in patients with bleeding disorders Olasupo OO, Haddix C, Nakar C, Maahs J, Greist A, Ghafoor A, Donfield SM, Iorio A, Shapiro AD 2022 Eur J Haematol View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Utilization of frozen plasma in Ontario: a province wide audit reveals a high rate of inappropriate transfusions Tinmouth A, Thompson T, Arnold DM, Callum JL, Gagliardi K, Lauzon D, Owens W, Pinkerton P 2013 Transfusion View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Utilization of frozen plasma, cryoprecipitate, and recombinant factor VIIa for children with hemostatic impairments: An audit of transfusion appropriateness Lieberman L, Lin Y, Cserti-Gazdewich C, Yi QL, Pendergrast J, Lau W, Callum J 2018 Pediatr Blood Cancer View Health care providers Clinical research
Utilization of the Abbott SARS-CoV-2 IgG II Quant Assay To Identify High-Titer Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Neutralizing Plasma against Wild-Type and Variant SARS-CoV-2 Viruses Lin Y-CJ, Evans DH, Robbins NF, Orjuela G, Hu Q, Samson R, Abe KT, Rathod B, Colwill K, Gingras A-C, Tuite A, Yi Q-L, O’Brien SF, Drews SJ 2022 Microbiol Spectr View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Vaccine Effectiveness Against Lineage-matched and -mismatched Influenza B Viruses Across 8 Seasons in Canada, 2010–2011 to 2017–2018 Chambers C, Hickman R, Sabaiduc S, Chan T, Jassem A, Rose C, Krajden M, Skowronski DM, Petric M, De Serres G, Martineau C, Charest H, Winter A-L, Gubbay JB, Dickinson JA, Fonseca K, Drews SJ, Bastien N, Li Y 2018 Clin Infect Dis View Researchers Clinical research
Vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia Klok FA, Pai M, Huisman MV, Makris M 2022 Lancet Haematol View Researchers Clinical research
Vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) - update on diagnosis and management considering different resources: Response to Comment from Yamada et al Greinacher A, Langer F, Makris M, Pai M, Pavord S, Tran H, Warkentin TE 2022 J Thromb Haemost View Health care providers Clinical research
Vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT): Update on diagnosis and management considering different resources Greinacher A, Langer F, Makris M, Pai M, Pavord S, Tran H, Warkentin TE 2022 J Thromb Haemost View Health care providers Clinical research
Vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia after COVID-19 vaccination: Description of a series of 39 cases in Brazil Mouta Nunes de Oliveira P, Mendes-de-Almeida DP, Bertollo Gomes Porto V, Crespo Cordeiro C, Vitiello Teixeira G, Saraiva Pedro R, Roberto Gomes Takey P, Kegele Lignani L, Reis Xavier J, Cardoso Doria da Gama V, Amorim Filho L, Emoingt Furtado B, Santa Maria A, Dahrug Barros T, Neves Waite Freitas L, Dos Santos Pereira T, Lima Abreu D, Bernardes Ramos M, Gabe C, Arnold D, William Smith J, Nazy I, Lourdes de Sousa Maia M 2022 Vaccine View Health care providers Clinical research
Vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia presenting with normal platelet count Page D, Zhu N, Sawler D, Sun HW, Turley E, Pai M, Wu C 2021 Res Pract Thromb Haemost View Researchers Clinical research
Vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia: Updates in pathobiology and diagnosis Jevtic SD, Arnold DM, Modi D, Ivetic N, Bissola AL, Nazy I 2022 Front Cardiovasc Med View Health care providers Clinical research
Validation and implementation of a new hemoglobinometer for donor screening at Canadian Blood Services Goldman M, Uzicanin S, Yi QL, Acker JP, Ramirez-Arcos S 2012 Transfusion View Blood operators New or improved product or process
Validation of a flow-cytometry-based red blood cell antigen phenotyping method Liwski R, Clarke G, Cheng C, Abidi SSR, Abidi SR, Quinn JG 2023 Vox Sang View Health care providers New or improved product or process
Validation of administrative database codes for acute kidney injury in kidney transplant recipients Molnar AO, van Walraven C, McArthur E, Fergusson D, Garg AX, Knoll G 2016 Can J Kidney Health Dis View Regulators New or improved product or process
Validation of sterility testing of cord blood: Challenges and results Ramirez-Arcos S, Kou Y, Yang L, Perkins H, Taha M, Halpenny M, Elmoazzen H 2015 Transfusion View Blood operators New or improved product or process
Value of MMA crossmatch? Tong TN, Cserti-Gazdewich CM, Branch DR 2016 Transfus Med View Researchers Basic research
Vancomycin Arnold DM 2015 Reactions Weekly View Health care providers Other
Variations in hemoglobin measurement and eligibility criteria across blood donation services are associated with differing low-hemoglobin deferral rates: a BEST Collaborative study Zalpuri S, Romeijn B, Allara E, Goldman M, Kamel H, Gorlin J, Vassallo R, Grégoire Y, Goto N, Flanagan P, Speedy J, Buser A, Kutner JM, Magnussen K, Castrén J, Culler L, Sussmann H, Prinsze FJ, Belanger K, Compernolle V, Tiberghien P, Cardenas JM, Gandhi MJ, West KA, Lee CK, James S, Wells D, Sutor LJ, Wendel S, Coleman M, Seltsam A, Roden K, Steele WR, Bohonek M, Alcantara R, Di Angelantonio E, van den Hurk K, BEST Collaborative 2020 Transfusion View Health care providers Clinical research
Variations in RBC and frozen plasma utilization rates across 62 Ontario community hospitals Qiang JK, Thompson T, Callum J, Pinkerton P, Lin Y 2019 Transfusion View Health care providers Clinical research
Vascular endothelial dysfunction in beta-thalassemia occurs despite increased eNOS expression and preserved vascular smooth muscle cell reactivity to NO Stoyanova E, Trudel M, Felfly H, Lemsaddek W, Garcia D, Cloutier G 2012 PLoS One View Researchers Basic research
Vein to Vein: A Summary of the Blood System in Canada Chargé S 2019 Clinical Guide to Transfusion View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Venous limb gangrene and pulseless electrical activity (PEA) cardiac arrest during management of deep-vein thrombosis and progressive limb ischemic necrosis following vascular surgery Avram AT, Blostein MD, Hirsch AM, Warkentin TE 2020 Am J Hematol View Health care providers Clinical research
Venous Thromboembolism and Mild Thrombocytopenia after ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 Vaccination Gabarin N, Patterson S, Pai M, Afzaal T, Nazy I, Sheppard JI, Arnold DM, Warkentin TE 2021 Thromb Haemost View Health care providers Clinical research
Venous thromboembolism in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease: an 11-year population-based nested case-control study in Canada Ding Z, Sherlock M, Chan AKC, Zachos M 2022 Blood Coagul Fibrinolysis View Researchers Clinical research
Verotoxin A subunit protects lymphocytes and T cell lines against X4 HIV infection in vitro Shi PL, Binnington B, Sakac D, Katsman Y, Ramkumar S, Gariepy J, Kim M, Branch DR, Lingwood C 2012 Toxins (Basel) View Researchers Basic research
Vers une nouvelle politique de don de sang? Un projet d’Héma-Québec auprès des hommes gais sexuellement actifs fait l’objet d’une étude. Caza P 2020 Actualités UQAM View Other Other
Viper venoms drive the macrophages and hepatocytes to sequester and clear platelets: novel mechanism and therapeutic strategy for venom-induced thrombocytopenia Shen C, Liu M, Mackeigan DT, Chen ZY, Chen P, Karakas D, Li J, Norris PAA, Li J, Deng Y, Long C, Lai R, Ni H 2021 Arch Toxicol View Researchers Basic research
Virtual screen for repurposing approved and experimental drugs for candidate inhibitors of EBOLA virus infection Veljkovic V, Loiseau PM, Figadere B, Glisic S, Veljkovic N, Perovic VR, Cavanaugh DP, Branch DR 2015 F1000Res View Researchers Basic research
Virus envelope tissue factor promotes infection in mice Sutherland MR, Simon AY, Shanina I, Horwitz MS, Ruf W, Pryzdial ELG 2019 J Thromb Haemost View Researchers Basic research
Virus-Platelet Associations Pryzdial ELG, Lin BH, Sutherland MR 2017 Platelets in Thrombotic and Non-Thrombotic Disorders: Pathophysiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics: an Update View Researchers Basic research
Vitamin D and kidney transplant outcomes: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis Hesketh CC, Knoll GA, Molnar AO, Tsampalieros A, Zimmerman DL 2014 Syst Rev View Researchers Clinical research
von Willebrand factor propeptide variants lead to impaired storage and ER retention in patient-derived endothelial colony-forming cells Bowman M, Casey L, Selvam SN, Lima PDA, Rawley O, Hinds M, Tuttle A, Grabell J, Iorio A, Walker I, Lillicrap D, James P 2022 J Thromb Haemost View Researchers Basic research
Vox Sanguinis International Forum on Donor Incentives Zeller MP, Ellingham D, Devine D, Lozano M, Lewis P, Zhiburt E, van der Linde L, Goldman M, Nakamura A, Inoue S, Takikawa M, Nakajima K, Turek P, Rehacek V, Sakashita AM, Kutner JM, Karim FA, Hindawi S, Jayasekara SBA, Merz E-M, Gross S, Woimant G, Djoudi R, Byabazaire KD, Irving DO, Abdrakhmanova S, Khalykova A, Yilmaz S, Oruc NE, Huaynalaya IP, Ramirez LAS, Chuhriiev A 2020 Vox Sang View Blood operators Benchmarking and standard setting
Vox Sanguinis International Forum on Donor Incentives: Summary Zeller MP, Ellingham D, Devine D, Lozano M, Lewis P, Zhiburt E, van der Linde L, Goldman M, Nakamura A, Inoue S, Takikawa M, Nakajima K, Turek P, Rehacek V, Sakashita AM, Kutner JM, Karim FA, Hindawi S, Jayasekara SBA, Merz EM, Gross S, Woimant G, Djoudi R, Byabazaire KD, Irving DO, Abdrakhmanova S, Khalykova A, Yilmaz S, Oruc NE, Huaynalaya IP, Ramirez LAS, Chuhriiev A 2020 Vox Sang View Blood operators Benchmarking and standard setting
Vox Sanguinis International Forum on donor notification and counselling strategies for markers of transfusion-transmissible infections Sharma RR, Lozano M, Fearon M, Bigham M, Djoudi R, Gallian P, Woimant G, Lee C, Leung JNS, Tsoi WC, Marwaha N, Sachdev S, Tadokoro K, Tani Y, Matsukura H, Gbuz So O, Shantseva N, Zhiburt E, Hindawi S, Chay J, Huang T, Teo D, Moleli N, Oyonarte S, Jayasekara SBA, Bokhorst A, van den Burg P, Hewitt P, Bianco C, Kessler D 2017 Vox Sang View Researchers Clinical research
Vox Sanguinis International Forum on donor notification and counselling strategies for markers of transfusion?transmissible infections: Summary Sharma R, Lozano M, Fearon M, Bigham M, Djoudi R, Gallian P, Woimant G, Lee C, Leung J, Tsoi W 2017 Vox Sang View Blood operators New or improved product or process
Vox Sanguinis International Forum on Mitigation Strategies to Prevent Faint and Pre-faint Adverse Reactions in Whole Blood Donors: Summary Goldman M, Townsend M, Magnussen K, Lozano M, Nissen-Meyer LS, Lee CK, Leung JN, Takanashi M, McKay J, Kvist M, Robitaille N, Deschênes J, Di Angelantonio E, McMahon A, Roberts D, Maghsudlu M, Castrén J, Tiberghien P, Woimant G, Morel P, Kamel H, Bravo M, Shinhar E, Gendelman V, Raz H, Wendel S, Fachini R, Quee F, van den Hurk K, Wiersum J, Grima K, Speedy J, Bruun M, Dunbar N 2021 Vox Sang View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting