W Dzik

Summary

Affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Reversal of drug-induced anticoagulation: old solutions and new problems
    Walter Sunny Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, J 224 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Transfusion 52:45S-55S. 2012
  2. ncbi Clinical review: Canadian National Advisory Committee on Blood and Blood Products--Massive transfusion consensus conference 2011: report of the panel
    Walter H Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Crit Care 15:242. 2011
  3. ncbi Combined measurement of soluble and cellular ICAM-1 among children with Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Uganda
    Christine M Cserti-Gazdewich
    Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University Health Network University of Toronto, Canada
    Malar J 9:233. 2010
  4. ncbi The impact of the National Blood Foundation
    Walter H Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, 02114, USA
    Transfusion 45:41S-3S. 2005
  5. ncbi The NHLBI Clinical Trials Network in transfusion medicine and hemostasis: an overview
    Walter H Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, 02114, USA
    J Clin Apher 21:57-9. 2006
  6. ncbi Off-label reports of new biologics: exciting new therapy or dubious research? Examples from recombinant activated factor VII
    Walter H Dzik
    Blood Tranfusion Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 02114, USA
    J Intensive Care Med 21:54-9. 2006
  7. ncbi New technology for transfusion safety
    Walter H Dzik
    Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Br J Haematol 136:181-90. 2007
  8. ncbi How I do it: platelet support for refractory patients
    Sunny Dzik
    Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Transfusion 47:374-8. 2007
  9. ncbi The James Blundell Award Lecture 2006: transfusion and the treatment of haemorrhage: past, present and future
    W H Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusettes, USA
    Transfus Med 17:367-74. 2007
  10. ncbi Errors in patient specimen collection: application of statistical process control
    Walter Sunny Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Transfusion 48:2143-51. 2008

Research Grants

  1. Studies of rHuTPO in ITP and of rVlla in Liver Disease
    David Kuter; Fiscal Year: 2006

Detail Information

Publications34

  1. ncbi Reversal of drug-induced anticoagulation: old solutions and new problems
    Walter Sunny Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, J 224 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Transfusion 52:45S-55S. 2012
    ..This review is presented to assist transfusion medicine specialists, hematologists, and other clinicians who prescribe blood components for reversal of drug-induced anticoagulation...
  2. ncbi Clinical review: Canadian National Advisory Committee on Blood and Blood Products--Massive transfusion consensus conference 2011: report of the panel
    Walter H Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Crit Care 15:242. 2011
    ..The present report is intended to provide guidance to practitioners, hospitals, and policy-makers...
  3. ncbi Combined measurement of soluble and cellular ICAM-1 among children with Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Uganda
    Christine M Cserti-Gazdewich
    Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University Health Network University of Toronto, Canada
    Malar J 9:233. 2010
    ..falciparum infection exhibiting a spectrum of clinical severity...
  4. ncbi The impact of the National Blood Foundation
    Walter H Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, 02114, USA
    Transfusion 45:41S-3S. 2005
  5. ncbi The NHLBI Clinical Trials Network in transfusion medicine and hemostasis: an overview
    Walter H Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, 02114, USA
    J Clin Apher 21:57-9. 2006
    ..Examples of clinical trials currently in the network "pipeline" are briefly summarized as an overview to more detailed presentations given elsewhere in this symposium...
  6. ncbi Off-label reports of new biologics: exciting new therapy or dubious research? Examples from recombinant activated factor VII
    Walter H Dzik
    Blood Tranfusion Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 02114, USA
    J Intensive Care Med 21:54-9. 2006
  7. ncbi New technology for transfusion safety
    Walter H Dzik
    Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Br J Haematol 136:181-90. 2007
    ....
  8. ncbi How I do it: platelet support for refractory patients
    Sunny Dzik
    Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Transfusion 47:374-8. 2007
  9. ncbi The James Blundell Award Lecture 2006: transfusion and the treatment of haemorrhage: past, present and future
    W H Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusettes, USA
    Transfus Med 17:367-74. 2007
    ..Ultimately, the application of widescale genomics testing will refresh our understanding of human physiology and will reassert the importance of the individual in patient care...
  10. ncbi Errors in patient specimen collection: application of statistical process control
    Walter Sunny Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Transfusion 48:2143-51. 2008
    ..Statistical process control (SPC) is a recognized method to monitor the performance of a critical process. An easy-to-use SPC method was tested to determine its feasibility as a tool for monitoring quality in transfusion medicine...
  11. ncbi Fresh blood for everyone? Balancing availability and quality of stored RBCs
    W Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Transfus Med 18:260-5. 2008
    ..Given the fundamental importance of a safe and adequate blood supply to national healthcare, the question of the proper storage age for blood should be studied using a prospective study design...
  12. ncbi When monocytes and platelets compete: The effect of platelet count on the flow cytometric measurement of monocyte CD36
    W H Dzik
    Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Pathology, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Cytometry B Clin Cytom 78:81-7. 2010
    ..CD36 is also strongly expressed on platelets where it is also known as platelet glycoprotein IV...
  13. ncbi The air we breathe: three vital respiratory gases and the red blood cell: oxygen, nitric oxide, and carbon dioxide
    Walter H Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Transfusion 51:676-85. 2011
    ..Just as individual cells depend on balance of the three vital gases, so too will their balance determine survival of life on Earth...
  14. ncbi Predicting hemorrhage using preoperative coagulation screening assays
    Walter H Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, J 224, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Curr Hematol Rep 3:324-30. 2004
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  15. ncbi Toward standardization of CD34+ cell enumeration: an international study. Biomedial Excellence for Safer Transfusion Working Party
    W Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA
    Transfusion 39:856-63. 1999
    ..Two commercially available techniques were studied, a flow cytometry method and a microvolume fluorimetry method...
  16. ncbi A multicenter study evaluating three methods for counting residual WBCs in WBC-reduced blood components: Nageotte hemocytometry, flow cytometry, and microfluorometry
    S Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Transfusion 40:513-20. 2000
    ..A multicenter study was conducted to evaluate the performance characteristics of flow cytometry and microfluorimetry for counting low concentrations of WBCs and to compare the results with Nageotte hemocytometry...
  17. ncbi Transfusion safety, 2001
    W H Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02114, USA
    Dev Biol (Basel) 108:3-7. 2002
  18. ncbi Leukoreduction of blood components
    Walter H Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 02114, USA
    Curr Opin Hematol 9:521-6. 2002
    ..The application of the technology to all blood components does not appear to be warranted...
  19. ncbi A prospective, randomized clinical trial of universal WBC reduction
    W H Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA
    Transfusion 42:1114-22. 2002
    ..Recipient exposure to allogeneic donor WBCs results in transfusion complications for selected populations of recipients. Whether or not WBC reduction should be universally applied is highly controversial...
  20. ncbi Apoptosis, transforming growth factor-beta, and the immunosuppressive effect of transfusion
    Sunny Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA
    Transfusion 42:1221-3. 2002
  21. ncbi Cardinal signs of reactions: hypotension following blood transfusion
    Walter H Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service J-224, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Vox Sang 83:145-6. 2002
  22. ncbi An alternative mechanism for the immunosuppressive effect of transfusion
    Walter H Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, J-224, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Vox Sang 83:417-9. 2002
  23. ncbi An international study of the performance of sample collection from patients
    W H Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA
    Vox Sang 85:40-7. 2003
    ..The aim of this international collaborative study was to assess the frequency of mislabelled and miscollected samples drawn for blood grouping...
  24. ncbi Emily Cooley Lecture 2002: transfusion safety in the hospital
    Walter H Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, JJ-224 Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Transfusion 43:1190-9. 2003
  25. ncbi Apoptosis, TGF beta and transfusion-related immunosuppression: Biologic versus clinical effects
    Walter H Dzik
    Blood Transfusion Service, J 224, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Transfus Apher Sci 29:127-9. 2003
    ..The infusion of apoptotic cells has recently been shown in animal models to be immunosuppressive. Immunosuppression resulting from the infusion of apoptotic cells may be linked to transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta)...
  26. ncbi Patient safety and blood transfusion: new solutions
    Walter H Dzik
    Department of Hematology Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Transfus Med Rev 17:169-80. 2003
    ..Technology solutions will likely require integration with delivery of pharmaceuticals to be financially acceptable to hospitals...
  27. ncbi Management of thrombolysis-associated symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage
    Joshua N Goldstein
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Zero Emerson Place, STE 3B, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Arch Neurol 67:965-9. 2010
    ..It is not clear whether patients with sICH continue to bleed after diagnosis, nor has the most appropriate treatment been determined...
  28. ncbi Transfusion-related acute lung injury or acute chest syndrome of sickle cell disease? - A case report
    Paul G Firth
    Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Can J Anaesth 50:895-9. 2003
    ..To describe how to differentiate transfusion-related acute lung injury from acute chest syndrome of sickle cell disease...
  29. ncbi Effect of fresh-frozen plasma transfusion on prothrombin time and bleeding in patients with mild coagulation abnormalities
    Omar I Abdel-Wahab
    Department of Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Transfusion 46:1279-85. 2006
    ..CONCLUSION: It is concluded that transfusion of FFP for mild abnormalities of coagulation values results in partial normalization of PT in a minority of patients and fails to correct the PT in 99 percent of patients...
  30. ncbi Treatment of recurrent allograft dysfunction with intravenous hematin after liver transplantation for erythropoietic protoporphyria
    Evan S Dellon
    Medical Service Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Transplantation 73:911-5. 2002
    ..This is the first case of the use of hematin given post-OLT to help achieve and maintain remission of allograft EPP disease...
  31. ncbi Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 32-2006. A 3-year-old girl with fever after a visit to Africa
    Iain P Fraser
    Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
    N Engl J Med 355:1715-22. 2006
  32. ncbi Current usage of intravenous immune globulin and the rationale behind it: the Massachusetts General Hospital data and a review of the literature
    Kamran Darabi
    Harvard University Joint Program in Transfusion Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Transfusion 46:741-53. 2006
    ..However, most usage is for off-label indications, and for some of these comprehensive guidelines have been published...
  33. ncbi Testing only donors with a prior history of pregnancy or transfusion is a logical and cost-effective transfusion-related acute lung injury prevention strategy
    Amy Powers
    Blood Transfusion Service, Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Transfusion 48:2549-58. 2008
    ..Donor screening may reduce TRALI risk. This study sought to compare the efficacy and safety of different TRALI risk-reduction strategies at a hospital-based donor center...
  34. ncbi Red blood cell exchange transfusion in two patients with advanced erythropoietic protoporphyria
    Quentin G Eichbaum
    Department of Pathology, Division of Laboratoty Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Transfusion 45:208-13. 2005
    ..The effectiveness of RBC exchange plus hematin versus plasmapheresis plus hematin in two patients with advanced hepatic EPP is reported...

Research Grants1

  1. Studies of rHuTPO in ITP and of rVlla in Liver Disease
    David Kuter; Fiscal Year: 2006
    ..Study endpoints would include (a) the percentage of patients increasing the platelet count over 50x109/L, (b) the number of RBC and platelet transfusions at splenectomy, (c) the rate of adverse events. ..