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E. Vamvakas · SciRah

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E. Vamvakas

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E. Vamvakas — researcher profile on SciRah

h-index: 46
Works: 142
Citations: 8,376

Most-cited papers

Transfusion-related immunomodulation (TRIM): an update.
E. Vamvakas, M. Blajchman
2007Blood reviews661 citations Open access
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Transfusion-related mortality: the ongoing risks of allogeneic blood transfusion and the available strategies for their prevention.
E. Vamvakas, M. Blajchman
2009Blood622 citations
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Deleterious clinical effects of transfusion-associated immunomodulation: fact or fiction?
E. Vamvakas, M. Blajchman
2001Blood432 citations
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Transfusion and postoperative pneumonia in coronary artery bypass graft surgery: effect of the length of storage of transfused red cells
E. Vamvakas, J. Carven
1999Transfusion326 citations
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Blood Still Kills: Six Strategies to Further Reduce Allogeneic Blood Transfusion-Related Mortality
E. Vamvakas, M. Blajchman
2010Transfusion Medicine Reviews181 citations Open access
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A survey of the demographics of blood use
T. Cobain, E. Vamvakas, A. Wells, Kjell Titlestad
2007Transfusion Medicine167 citations Open access
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Length of storage of transfused red cells and postoperative morbidity in patients undergoing coronary artery bypassgraft surgery
E. Vamvakas, J. Carven
2000Transfusion165 citations
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Possible mechanisms of allogeneic blood transfusion-associated postoperative infection.
E. Vamvakas
2002Transfusion Medicine Reviews159 citations
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Is white blood cell reduction equivalent to antibody screening in preventing transmission of cytomegalovirus by transfusion? A review of the literature and meta-analysis.
E. Vamvakas
2005Transfusion Medicine Reviews158 citations
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Current incidence and estimated residual risk of transfusion‐transmitted infections in donations made to Canadian Blood Services
S. O'Brien, Qi-Long Yi, W. Fan, V. Scalia +2 more
2007Transfusion156 citations
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Leukocyte reduction of blood components: public policy and new technology.
S. Dzik, J. AuBuchon, Leigh Jeffries, Steven Kleinman +7 more
2000Transfusion Medicine Reviews131 citations Open access
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Universal WBC reduction:the case for and against
E. Vamvakas, M. Blajchman
2001Transfusion130 citations
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The continuing risk of transfusion-transmitted infections.
M. Blajchman, E. Vamvakas
2006New England Journal of Medicine120 citations
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Trends in the incidence of delayed hemolytic and delayed serologic transfusion reactions
A. Pineda, E. Vamvakas, L. Gorden, J. Winters +1 more
1999Transfusion95 citations Open access
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BLOOD COMPONENTS: Meta‐analysis of clinical studies of the purported deleterious effects of “old” (versus “fresh”) red blood cells: are we at equipoise?
E. Vamvakas
2009Transfusion94 citations
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RBC alloantibody specificity and antigen potency in Olmsted County, Minnesota
J. L. Winters, A. A. Pineda, Lemuel D. Gorden, Sandra C. Bryant +3 more
2001Transfusion93 citations
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RBC transfusion and postoperative length of stay in the hospital or the intensive care unit among patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery: the effects of confounding factors
E. Vamvakas, J. Carven
2000Transfusion90 citations
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Meta‐analysis of controlled clinical trials studying the efficacy of rHuEPO in reducing blood transfusions in the anemia of prematurity
E. Vamvakas, Ronald G. Strauss
2001Transfusion82 citations
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COMMENTARY: Relative safety of pooled whole blood–derived versus single‐donor (apheresis) platelets in the United States: a systematic review of disparate risks
E. Vamvakas
2009Transfusion80 citations
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Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials investigating the risk of postoperative infection in association with white blood cell-containing allogeneic blood transfusion: the effects of the type of transfused red blood cell product and surgical setting.
E. Vamvakas
2002Transfusion Medicine Reviews79 citations
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Postoperative complications associated with transfusion of platelets and plasma in cardiac surgery
Y. Bilgin, L. van de Watering, M. Versteegh, M. V. van Oers +2 more
2011Transfusion74 citations
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WBC‐containing allogeneic blood transfusion and mortality: a meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials
E. Vamvakas
2003Transfusion74 citations
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Effects of pathogen reduction systems on platelet microRNAs, mRNAs, activation, and function
Abdimajid Osman, W. Hitzler, Claudius U. Meyer, P. Landry +6 more
2014Platelets72 citations Open access
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Allogeneic blood transfusion and postoperative duration of mechanical ventilation: effects of red cell supernatant, platelet supernatant, plasma components and total transfused fluid
E. Vamvakas, J. Carven
2002Vox Sanguinis72 citations
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Clinical and molecular basis of transfusion-induced immunomodulation: summary of the proceedings of a state-of-the-art conference.
M. Blajchman, S. Dzik, E. Vamvakas, J. D. Sweeney +1 more
2001Transfusion Medicine Reviews68 citations
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Prospective Reevaluation of the Association Between Thrombotic Diathesis and Legg-Perthes Disease
M. T. Hresko, Patricia A. McDougall, J. Gorlin, E. Vamvakas +2 more
2002Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American volume64 citations
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Hepatitis B virus DNA–positive, hepatitis B surface antigen–negative blood donations intercepted by anti‐hepatitis B core antigen testing: the Canadian Blood Services experience
S. O'Brien, M. Fearon, Qi-Long Yi, W. Fan +3 more
2007Transfusion56 citations
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Meta‐analysis of the studies of bleeding complications of platelets pathogen‐reduced with the Intercept system
E. Vamvakas
2012Vox Sanguinis51 citations
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The cost‐effectiveness of autologous transfusion revisited: implications of an increased risk of bacterial infection with allogeneic transfusion
E. Vamvakas
2000Transfusion50 citations
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transfusion and the available strategies for their prevention Transfusion-related mortality: the ongoing risks of allogeneic blood
E. Vamvakas, M. Blajchman
201349 citations
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Transfusion of buffy coat‐depleted blood components and risk of postoperative infection in orthopedic patients
E. Vamvakas
2000Transfusion48 citations
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Universal WBC reduction
R. Thurer, N. Luban, J. AuBuchon, H. Silver +27 more
2000Transfusion44 citations
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The Canadian blood donor health assessment questionnaire: lessons from history, application of cognitive science principles, and recommendations for change.
S. O'Brien, S. Ram, E. Vamvakas, M. Goldman
2007Transfusion Medicine Reviews43 citations
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Pneumonia as a complication of blood product transfusion in the critically ill: Transfusion-related immunomodulation (TRIM)
E. Vamvakas
2006Critical Care Medicine43 citations
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Reasons for moving toward a patient‐centric paradigm of clinical transfusion medicine practice
E. Vamvakas
2013Transfusion42 citations
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Meta‐analysis of the randomized controlled trials of the hemostatic efficacy and capacity of pathogen‐reduced platelets
E. Vamvakas
2011Transfusion41 citations
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Exposure to allogeneic plasma and risk of postoperative pneumonia and/or wound infection in coronary artery bypass graft surgery
E. Vamvakas, Joan H. Carven
2002Transfusion41 citations
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Prestorage versus poststorage white cell reduction for the prevention of the deleterious immunomodulatory effects of allogeneic blood transfusion.
E. Vamvakas, M. Blajchman
2000Transfusion Medicine Reviews40 citations Open access
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Autologous transfusion and other approaches to reduce allogeneic blood exposure.
E. Vamvakas, A. A. Pineda
2000Baillière's Best Practice & Research: Clinical Haematology29 citations Open access
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The development of West Nile virus safety policies by Canadian blood services: guiding principles and a comparison between Canada and the United States.
E. Vamvakas, S. Kleinman, H. Hume, G. Sher
2006Transfusion Medicine Reviews27 citations
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Evidence-based practice of transfusion medicine: is it possible and what do the words mean?
E. Vamvakas
2004Transfusion Medicine Reviews27 citations
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Establishing causation in transfusion medicine and related tribulations.
E. Vamvakas
2011Transfusion Medicine Reviews26 citations
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Relative risk of reducing the lifetime blood donation deferral for men who have had sex with men versus currently tolerated transfusion risks.
E. Vamvakas
2011Transfusion Medicine Reviews26 citations
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Platelet transfusion and postoperative infection in cardiac surgery
E. Vamvakas
2007Transfusion26 citations
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Immunomodulatory Effects of Blood Transfusion
E. Vamvakas, M. Blajchman
199925 citations
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Predictive ability of sequential surveys in determining donor loss from increasingly stringent variant Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease deferral policies
S. O'Brien, J. Chiavetta, M. Goldman, W. Fan +3 more
2006Transfusion24 citations
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Allogeneic blood transfusion and cancer recurrence: 20 years later
E. Vamvakas
2014Transfusion22 citations Open access
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Is human herpesvirus-8 transmitted by transfusion?
E. Vamvakas
2010Transfusion Medicine Reviews22 citations
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Scientific background on the risk engendered by reducing the lifetime blood donation deferral period for men who have sex with men.
E. Vamvakas
2009Transfusion Medicine Reviews22 citations
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Face‐to‐face interviewing in predonation screening: lack of effect on detected human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C virus infections
S. O'Brien, W. Fan, S. Ram, M. Goldman +3 more
2006Transfusion22 citations
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