In the US, approximately 14–15 million units of blood are collected annually and transfused to about 5 million people 1. About 1,000 of these recipients will develop transfusion-related acute ...
[13] More data and more accurate diagnoses will help in better pinpointing the cause of TRALI in each patient, and in evaluating the risks associated with transfusions of different blood products.
The findings could lead to new ways to diagnose TRALI and identify people at risk. “Transfuse two units packed red blood cells” may be among the most common orders a physician will write in ...
According to detailed studies, TRALI might occur in 1/5000 transfusions, [5] or as frequently as 1/300 transfusions of red blood cell derivatives. Others reported a frequency of 1/1323 in a recent ...