Physician
Pathology
Dr. Eleftherios C. Vamvakas, MD
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Eleftherios C. Vamvakas works in the field of Pathology. He attended NYU School of Medicine. He received awards:"Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare". Eleftherios Vamvakas has written publications. He has 100 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of the efficacy of white cell reduction in preventing HLA-alloimmunization and refractoriness to random-donor platelet tr...'
Publications
- The abandoned controversy surrounding universal white blood cell reduction.
- A patient-centric approach to preventing allergic reactions to platelet transfusions.
- Postoperative complications associated with transfusion of platelets and plasma in cardiac surgery.
- Purported deleterious effects of "old" versus "fresh" red blood cells: an updated meta-analysis.
- Meta-analysis of the randomized controlled trials of the hemostatic efficacy and capacity of pathogen-reduced platelets.
- Establishing causation in transfusion medicine and related tribulations.
- Universal white blood cell reduction in Europe: has transmission of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease been prevented?
- Relative risk of reducing the lifetime blood donation deferral for men who have had sex with men versus currently tolerated transfusion risks.
- Blood still kills: six strategies to further reduce allogeneic blood transfusion-related mortality.
- Meta-analysis of clinical studies of the purported deleterious effects of "old" (versus "fresh") red blood cells: are we at equipoise?
- Is human herpesvirus-8 transmitted by transfusion?
- Relative safety of pooled whole blood-derived versus single-donor (apheresis) platelets in the United States: a systematic review of disparate risks.
- Why are all men who have had sex with men even once since 1977 indefinitely deferred from donating blood?
- Transfusion-related mortality: the ongoing risks of allogeneic blood transfusion and the available strategies for their prevention.
- Scientific background on the risk engendered by reducing the lifetime blood donation deferral period for men who have sex with men.
- Long-term survival rate of pediatric patients after blood transfusion.
- Hepatitis B virus DNA-positive, hepatitis B surface antigen-negative blood donations intercepted by anti-hepatitis B core antigen testing: the Canadian Blood Services ...
- The Canadian blood donor health assessment questionnaire: lessons from history, application of cognitive science principles, and recommendations for change.
- Current incidence and estimated residual risk of transfusion-transmitted infections in donations made to Canadian Blood Services.
- Platelet transfusion and postoperative infection in cardiac surgery.
- The continuing risk of transfusion-transmitted infections.
- Face-to-face interviewing in predonation screening: lack of effect on detected human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C virus infections.
- Pneumonia as a complication of blood product transfusion in the critically ill: transfusion-related immunomodulation (TRIM).
- The development of West Nile virus safety policies by Canadian blood services: guiding principles and a comparison between Canada and the United States.
- Deleterious clinical effects of transfusion immunomodulation: proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
- Predictive ability of sequential surveys in determining donor loss from increasingly stringent variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease deferral policies.
- Is white blood cell reduction equivalent to antibody screening in preventing transmission of cytomegalovirus by transfusion? A review of the literature and meta-analysis.
- Evidence-based practice of transfusion medicine: is it possible and what do the words mean?
- Proceedings of a consensus conference: the screening of blood donors for variant CJD.
- WBC-containing allogeneic blood transfusion and mortality: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
- Uses and sources of data on long-term survival after blood transfusion.
- Ten-year survival of transfusion recipients identified by hepatitis C lookback.
- Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials investigating the risk of postoperative infection in association with white blood cell-containing allogeneic blood transf...
- Prospective reevaluation of the association between thrombotic diathesis and legg-perthes disease.
- Four-year survival of transfusion recipients identified by hepatitis C lookback.
- Possible mechanisms of allogeneic blood transfusion-associated postoperative infection.
- Exposure to allogeneic plasma and risk of postoperative pneumonia and/or wound infection in coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
- Toward a patient-based paradigm for blood transfusion.
- Applications of meta-analysis in pathology practice.
- Allogeneic blood transfusion and postoperative duration of mechanical ventilation: effects of red cell supernatant, platelet supernatant, plasma components and total t...
- Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials comparing the risk of postoperative infection between recipients of allogeneic and autologous blood transfusion.
- Epidemiology of red blood cell utilization.
- White-blood-cell-containing allogeneic blood transfusion, postoperative infection and mortality: a meta-analysis of observational ''before-and-after'' studies.
- Blood transfusion to AIDS patients: relationship to opportunistic infection.
- Blood transfusion and postoperative septic complications.
- Long-term survival after blood transfusion.
- Epidemiology of blood transfusion.
- The differentiation of delayed hemolytic and delayed serologic transfusion reactions: incidence and predictors of hemolysis.
- Probability of red cell transfusion in an unselected population.
- Mortality after blood transfusion.
- Blood transfusion and septic complications after hip replacement surgery.
- Total potential frequency of autologous blood transfusion in Olmsted County, MN.
- Blood donors who are repeatedly reactive for hepatitis C virus on enzyme immunoassay and positive on recombinant immunoblot assay: evidence of failure to identify some...
- Perioperative blood transfusion and cancer recurrence: meta-analysis for explanation.
- Incidence of delayed hemolytic transfusion reactions.
- Flow cytometric analysis of DNA ploidy and S-phase fraction in breast cancer using cells obtained by ex vivo fine-needle aspiration: an optimal method for sample colle...
- Endocervical gland involvement by cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade III. Predictive value for residual and/or recurrent disease.
- Flow cytometric DNA ploidy and quantitative histopathology in partial moles.
- Meta-analysis of clinical studies of the efficacy of plasma exchange in the treatment of chronic progressive multiple sclerosis.
- Meta-analysis of clinical studies of the efficacy of granulocyte transfusions in the treatment of bacterial sepsis.
- Transfusion-associated cancer recurrence and postoperative infection: meta-analysis of randomized, controlled clinical trials.
- Effect of autologous transfusion on length of survival.
- Confounding and the effect of allogeneic transfusion on survival.
- RBC alloantibody specificity and antigen potency in Olmsted County, Minnesota.
- Long-term survival of transfusion recipients in Sweden, 1993.
- Allogeneic blood transfusion and postoperative duration of mechanical ventilation.
- Universal WBC reduction: the case for and against.
- Clinical and molecular basis of transfusion-induced immunomodulation: summary of the proceedings of a state-of-the-art conference.
- Meta-analysis of controlled clinical trials studying the efficacy of rHuEPO in reducing blood transfusions in the anemia of prematurity.
- Deleterious clinical effects of transfusion-associated immunomodulation: fact or fiction?
- Autologous transfusion and other approaches to reduce allogeneic blood exposure.
- 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...
- Allogeneic blood transfusion as a risk factor for the subsequent development of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- Universal WBC reduction.
- Multicenter randomized controlled trials in transfusion medicine.
- Evaluation of clinical studies of the efficacy of therapeutic apheresis.
- The cost-effectiveness of autologous transfusion revisited: implications of an increased risk of bacterial infection with allogeneic transfusion.
- Transfusion of buffy coat-depleted blood components and risk of postoperative infection in orthopedic patients.
- Leukocyte reduction of blood components: public policy and new technology.
- Prestorage versus poststorage white cell reduction for the prevention of the deleterious immunomodulatory effects of allogeneic blood transfusion.
- Length of storage of transfused red cells and postoperative morbidity in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
- Risk of transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease by transfusion of blood, plasma, and plasma derivatives.
- Trends in the incidence of delayed hemolytic and delayed serologic transfusion reactions.
- Transfusion and postoperative pneumonia in coronary artery bypass graft surgery: effect of the length of storage of transfused red cells.
- Carcinoma of the fallopian tube: a clinicopathological study of 105 cases with observations on staging and prognostic factors.
- Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of the efficacy of white cell reduction in preventing HLA-alloimmunization and refractoriness to random-donor platelet tr...
- Meta-analyses of studies of the diagnostic accuracy of laboratory tests: a review of the concepts and methods.
- The prognostic significance of specific arterial lesions in acute renal allograft rejection.
- Transfusion of white-cell containing allogeneic blood components and postoperative wound infection: effect of confounding factors.
- Collagen-induced whole blood platelet aggregation in patients undergoing surgical procedures associated with minimal to moderate blood loss.
- Hypovitaminosis D in medical inpatients.
- Allogeneic blood transfusion, hospital charges, and length of hospitalization: a study of 487 consecutive patients undergoing colorectal cancer resection.
- Rationale, objectives, and interpretation of randomized controlled trials.
- Determinants of the efficacy of prophylactic granulocyte transfusions: a meta-analysis.
- A proposal for an individual patient data based meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of allogeneic transfusion and postoperative bacterial infection.
- Length of survival after perioperative transfusion.
- Meta-analysis in transfusion medicine.
- Histology of leiomyomata in patients treated with leuprolide acetate.
- The generation of anchoring fibrils by epidermal keratinocytes: a quantitative long-term study.
Schools
University Of Athens School Of Health Sciences
Nyu Med Center Ny
Mayo Clinic Division Of Transfusion
Doctors Specialties
- Pathology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
Education
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Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education -
NYU School of Medicine -
University of Athens
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