by Joe Chaffin | Feb 21, 2016
Glossary Adult T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma Abbreviated “ATL” or “ATLL,” this is a rare and particularly aggressive malignancy of blood T-lymphocytes caused by infection with the Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus (HTLV-I). Individuals diagnosed with...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 11, 2016
Glossary College of American Pathologists An Illinois-based international medical society composed primarily of pathologists (known widely by the acronym “CAP”). In transfusion medicine, interactions with CAP are primarily through accreditation and...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 11, 2016
Glossary Direct Exclusion In historical paternity testing, a direct exclusion occurred when a child expressed an antigen that he could not have inherited from the potential father or mother. An example: A group O man is the possible father of a child who is blood...
by Joe Chaffin | Feb 21, 2016
Glossary Agglutination The process in which free red blood cells are bound together by an antibody and reduced to a visible pellet when centrifuged, most typically in test tubes. In short, when an antibody binds to an RBC antigen then binds to an antigen on a second...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 22, 2016
Glossary Transfusion Medicine A field of medicine that is a hybrid of laboratory and clinical practices. Transfusion medicine physicians are pathologists, hematologists, anesthesiologists, and pediatricians that are experts in the science and practice of blood...
