Director: Dr. Orly Zelig
Tel: 972-2-677-60-47
e-mail: orlyz@hadassah.org.il
STAFF
Teaching Fellow:
Zelig, O., M.D. (Head of Department
Participating inTeaching:
Mudahi-Orenstein, S., Ph.D.
INTRODUCTION
The department of transfusion medicine and blood bank is comprised of three interconnected subunits: Donor-room, Infectious diseases detection laboratory and the patients’ service laboratory.
The Donor Unit acts as an independent blood collecting and blood processing facility. Some of the functions performed include : Whole blood collection, processing into blood components, further treatment of blood products (filtration, washing and freezing of rare blood units etc.), and collection of Single-donor platelets units by apheresis.
All donated blood units are tested for the presence of blood borne pathogens like HIV, HTLV, HBV, HCV and RPR by ELISA methods.
The Patients’ Service Laboratory conducts the immunohematology work-up needed for providing safe blood products to hospitalized patients as well as diagnosis and follow-up of out-patients.
In addition, screening tests for Heparin-Induced-Thrombocytopenia and PNH are performed. The Hadassah Blood Bank is the only laboratory in the country that carries out the MMA test to establish the clinical significance of RBC antibodies.
RESEARCH AREAS
§ Acceptance/deferal criteria for blood donors (Manny, Dakosta, Zelig)
§ Auto-immune Hemolytic Anemia (Zelig, Mudahi-Orenstein, Dakosta, Manny)
§ Alloantibodies in Thalassemia (Dakosta, Manny, Zelig)
§ Rheology of stored blood (Yedgar, Manny)
§ Function of stored platelets (Zelig, Mudahi-Orenstein, Manny)
§ Bacterial contamination of blood components (Zelig, Block, Mudahi-Orenstein, Manny)
§ Antibodies in women in the perinatal period (Mudahi-Orenstein, Zelig, Dacosta, Manny)
§ Quality management in transfusion medicine (Mudahi-Orenstein, Zelig, Dacosta, Manny)
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